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A selection of the most enduring work of one of this century's best-known French playwrights Jean Anouilh (1910-87) along with Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, was at the forefront of the post-war generation of playwrights in Paris. In England his plays were championed by Peter Brook. Antigone is a response to the German occupation of France and established his popularity in 1944 (the Germans ironically, thought that it was a pro-Nazi in its portrayal of King Creon and thus allowed its production); Poor Bitos, Anouilh's angriest play explores the act of judicial murder and The Lark is a version of the Joan of Arc story. All three plays show his fondness for reworking myth, history and legend. Meanwhile Leocadia, about an opera singer who dies after a three day love affair with a prince and The Waltz of the Toreadors, about a general whose mistress attempts to prove his wife's infidelity, represent another talent - for ironic, modern comedy."Anouilh is a poet but not a poet of words, he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing." (Peter Brook)

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Plays, playscripts

• Full title: Anouilh Plays: 1
• Subtitle: Antigone; Leocadia; The Waltz of the Toreasors; The Lark; Poor Bitos
• Author: Jean Anouilh
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448
• EAN: 9780413140302
• ISBN: 041314030X
• ID: 04605876
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 494 g
• Dimensions: 133 × 202 × 35 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. December 1987

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