Antigone: Methuen Student Edition
'Antigone' was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was an occupied nation and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime and the play's central character, the young Antigone, mirrored the predicament of the French people in the grips of tyranny.
'Antigone' was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was an occupied nation and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime and the play's central character, the young Antigone, mirrored the predicament of the French people in the grips of tyranny.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780413695406 (0413695409)
Publish date: July 1st 2003
Publisher: A&C Black
Pages no: 75
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
France,
French Literature,
Tragedy
Read this play any time you feel you're being talked into something which sounds plausible, but which you know in your heart just stinks. It was written to encourage French people not to collaborate with the Nazis during the occupation. A miracle that it was ever performed. Were the Nazi censors sim...
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