![]() Authors Writers Famous Writers Anouilh Antigone Writer Jean. ![]() Methuen Student Edition) Jean Anouilh, Barbara Bray. ![]() 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 characterisaation of Creon also seemed to exonerate Marshal Petain and his fellow collaborators. Antigone, his best-known play, was performed in 1944 in Nazi-controlled Paris and provoked fierce controversy. 'Anouilh is a poet, but not of words: he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing' Peter Brook 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.
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