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 its own theatricality.

Falb, Lewis W. Jean Anouilh. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1977.

Biography of the playwright that considers "only those aspects of his life that relate directly to his career as a playwright," because "Anouilh feels that the creative and intellectual career rather than the historical facts of writer's life sonstitutes the true biography."

Gassner, John. "European Vistas." In his Theatre at the Crossroads: Plays and Playwrights of the Mid-Century American Stage, pp. 242-73. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960.

Includes several reviews of English-language productions of plays by Anouilh, including The Lark and The Waltz of the Toreadors.

Guicharnaud, Jacques, and Beckelman, June. "From Anguish to Play: Jean Anouilh and Armand Salacrou." In his Modern French Theatre from Giradoux to Beckett, pp. 112-30. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1961.

Comparison of the two playwrights that declares, "together they are representative of what is best in today's theatre of bitterness and lucidity."

Grossvogel, David I. "Commercialism Reconsidered: Anouilh." In his The Self-Conscious Stage in Modern French Drama, pp. 147-204. New York: Columbia University Press, 1958.

Broad overview of Anouilh's plays that views "each play as [the] hero's quest for salvation or his acceptance in the world."

Heiney, Donald. "Jean Anouilh: The Revival of Tragedy." College English 16, No. 6 (March 1955): 231-35.

Contends that most of Anouilh's tragedies are "simultaneously a modern expression the Aristotelian tragic principle and a sensitive approach to the portrayal of psychological processes."

Hewitson, Richard. "Anouilh's Antigone: a Coherent Structure." Australian Journal of French Studies XVII, No. 2 (May-August 1980): 167-80.

Observes a significant structure in Antigone, despite its "manifest ambiguity and surface incoherence."

John, S. Beynon. "Obsession and Technique in the Plays of Jean Anouilh." In Modern Drama: Essays in Criticism, ed. Travis Bogard and William I. Oliver, pp. 20-42. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.

Investigates "Anouilh's obsession with purity," which "acts as a unifying and organizing principle in his work."

Mclntyre, H. G. The Theatre of Jean Anouilh. Totowa, N. J.: Barnes & Noble Books, 1981, 165 p.

Full-length study of Anouilh as a "working dramatist" who showed "a deep interest in the constituent elements, conventions, techniques and resources of his chosen medium."

Nelson, Robert J. "Anouilh. The Play as Maze." In his Play within a Play: The Dramatist's Conception of His Art: Shakespeare to Anouilh, pp. 134-54. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1958.

Argues that in his various works Anouilh demonstrates both the tragic and the comic views of life.

Spingler, Michael. "Anouilh's Little Antigone: Tragedy, Theatricalism, and the Romantic Self." Comparative Drama 8, No. 3 (Fall 1974): 228-38.

Reads Antigone as an "anti-tragedy" which rejects modern formulations of tragedy based on character rather than action.

Witt, Mary Ann Frese. "Fascist Ideology and Theatre Under the Occupation: The Case of Anouilh." European Studies XXIII (1993): 49-69.

Contends that Anouilh's "articles for the German-sponsored papers along with his theatre read in the light of contemporary fascist ideology place him within a collaborationist context" during the German occupation of France in World War II.

Additional coverage of Anouilh's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Research: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 17-20R, 123; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 32; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 3, 8, 13, 40, 50; DISCovering Authors: Modules -Dramatists Module; Major Twentieth-Century Authors.