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Antigone (Paperback, New Edition - New Edition)
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Antigone (Paperback, New Edition - New Edition)
Series: Student Editions
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Price R168
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'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. 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 characterisaation of Creon
also seemed to exonerate Marshal Petain and his fellow
collaborators. More ambivalent than his ancient model, Sophocles,
Anouilh uses Greek myth to explore the disturbing moral dilemmas of
our times. Commentary and notes by Ted Freeman.
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