| Description |
lviii, 75 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Methuen drama student editions
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Methuen drama student editions.
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| Note |
"This edition first published ... in 2000 ... Reissued with additional material ... 2005; with a new cover design [by Bloomsbury] 2009"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages liv-lviii). |
| Summary |
Jean Anouilh, one of the foremost French playwrights of the twentieth century, replaced the mundane realist works of the previous era with his innovative dramas, which exploit fantasy, tragic passion, scenic poetry and cosmic leaps in time and space. Antigone, his best-known play, was performed in 1944 in Nazi-controlled Paris and provoked fierce controversy. In defying the tyrant Creon and going to her death, Antigone conveyed to Anouilh's compatriots a covert message of heroic resistance; but the author's characterization of Creon also seemed to exonerate Marshall Ptain and his fellow collaborators. More ambivalent than his ancient model, Sophocles, Anouilh uses Greek myth to explore the disturbing moral dilemmas of our time. |
| Contents |
Jean Anouilh: 1910-1987 -- Plot -- Commentary -- Anouilh and the theatre of his time -- Greek myths in twentieth-century French theatre -- Sophocles and the myth of Antigone -- Anouilh's Antigone -- Antigone in performance: the 1944 controversy and after -- Further reading -- Antigone -- Notes -- Questions for further study. |
| Language |
Translated to English from the original French. |
| Subject |
Antigone (Mythological character) -- Drama.
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Antigone (Mythological character) |
| Genre/Form |
Drama.
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Drama.
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| Added Author |
Bray, Barbara, translator.
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Freeman, E., editor.
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| Added Title |
Antigone. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98047454
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| ISBN |
9780413695406 (paperback) |
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0413695409 (paperback) |
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