Anouilh, Jean (Vol. 8) - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Amoia, Alba. "The Heroic World of Jean Anouilh." In Twentieth-Century European Drama, ed. Brian Docherty, pp. 109-23.
Maintains that heroism is demonstrated almost exclusively by female characters in Anouilh's plays. Amoia observes, "Anouilh's heroines champion realities and truths which reveal the hollowness and falseness of the male characters' compromises."
Burdick, Dolores M. "Antigone Grows Middle-Aged: Evolution of Anouilh's Hero." Michigan Academician VII, No. 2 (Fall 1974): 137-47.
Examines Anouilh's later plays in terms of the "clash between a fiery young idealist and the permeating corruptions of this world" exemplified in Antigone.
Champigny, Robert. "Theatre in a Mirror: Anouilh." Yale French Studies 14 (Winter 1954-55): 57-64.
Views Anouilh's work as self-conscious theater, that is, theater that through the use of such devices as a play within the play, continually emphasizes...
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