Antigone / Jean Anouilh ; translated by Lewis Galantiere.
By: Anouilh, Jean
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Contributor(s): Galantière, Lewis.
Material type: 
BookSeries: Methuen Drama modern classics: Publisher: London : Methuen, 1951 (1975)Description: 71 p. ; 19 cm.ISBN: 041330860X; 9780413308603.Subject(s): Antigone (Greek mythology) -- DramaDDC classification: 882.01
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 882.01 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00175293 | ||
| General Lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 882.01 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00104796 | ||
| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Store Item | 882.01 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00192699 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Based on Sophocles'' ancient Greek tragedy, Antigone which was first performed in Athens in the 5th century BC, its theme was nevertheless topical. For in Antigone's faithfulness to her dead brother and his proper burial and her reiterated No! to the dictator Creon, the French audience saw its own resistance to the German occupation. The Germans allowed the play to be performed presumably because they found Creon''s arguments for dictatorship so convincing. The play is regularly performed and studied around the world. ''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'
Pat Murray collection.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Jean Anouilh was born on June 23, 1910, in France. Anouilh studied law as a teenager and worked briefly in advertising. He soon became aware of his strong attraction to the theatre and became one of France's foremost playwrights and screenwriters.Anouilh's works are noted for their theatrical conventions. His plays, many of which are bleak dramas, feature characters facing highly moral dilemmas. He uses such conventions as flashbacks, role reversals, and play-within-a-play to achieve dramatic effects.
Anouilh received a New York Drama Critics Circle Award for his play Waltz of the Toreadors and a Tony award for Thieves Carnival. Other well-known works include Antigone, Eurydice and the film Pattes Blanches.
Anouilh suffered a heart attack and died in 1987.
(Bowker Author Biography)