Jean Anouilh
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (French: [anuj]) was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on...
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Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (French: [anuj]) was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.
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Birth date: 1910-06-23
Died: 1987-10-03
Jean Anouilh's Books
Only read "Waltz of the Toreadors"
This audio version is good, even though it seems as if Beckett has a lisp.
If you have never seen Becket, the movie, with Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton, you must. It's based on this play by Jean Anouilh that I had never read. I ran across the LA Theaterworks production on Audible and gave it a try. Wonderful production and play. My only complaint is that it was sometime...
bookshelves: published-1959, play-dramatisation, medieval5c-16c, historical-fiction, revenge, teh-brillianz, re-visit-2013, autumn-2013, film-only Read from January 01, 1979 to November 29, 2013, read count: 3 Original review: Bettie's Books Revisit November 2013 to compliment this section within...
bookshelves: published-1959, play-dramatisation, medieval5c-16c, historical-fiction, revenge, teh-brillianz Read in January, 1979, read count: 2 I have a problem with forks :"Although the word fork dates back to about the eleventh century as the name of an implement used to pitch hay, the table ...
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