Jean Anouilh (Critical Survey of Drama)
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Jean Anouilh is known only for his plays. With the exception of infrequent reviews, he wrote nothing else and was known to refuse requests for occasional pieces with characteristic truculence, professing his inability “to write.”
Achievements
Active as a dramatist well past the age of sixty-five, Jean Anouilh wrote nearly fifty plays in roughly as many years, among them five or ten true masterpieces that more than suffice to assure him a position of high distinction in the history of French drama.
Achieving distinction in his...
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