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Anouilh, Jean - zhäN änwēˈyə, 1910–87, French dramatist. Anouilh's many popular plays range from tragedy to sophisticated comedy. His first play, L'hermine, was published in 1932. During the Nazi regime he wrote plays about resistance to oppression in terms of subjects from classical mythology; Antigone (1944, tr. 1946) is the most celebrated of these

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World Drama from Aeschylus to Anouilh » Read Now
by Allardyce Nicoll. 1000 pgs.

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...It begins with AEschylus and ends with Anouilh. This means that it is concerned chiefly...Justice copyright 1910 . Mme Jean Giraudoux for an extract from Jean...in France ...
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Makers of the Modern Theater (1961) ("Antigone" by Jean Anouilh begins on p. 485) » Read Now
by Barry Ulanov. 746 pgs.

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The French Theater since 1930: Six Contemporary Full-Length Plays ("Le Voyageur Sans Bagage" by Jean Anouilh begins on p. 143) » Read Now
by Oreste F. Pucciani. 408 pgs.

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...The Play 95 JEAN ANOUILH LE VOYAGEUR SANS BAGAGE 143...Le Voyageur sans bagage of Jean Anouilh, Jean le Maufranc of Jules...became the official theater of Jean Anouilh...
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The Search for Modern Tragedy: Aesthetic Fascism in Italy and France (Chap. Five "Aesthetic Fascism and French Modern Tragedy under the German Occupation: Montherlant and Anouilh") » Read Now
by Mary Ann Frese Witt. 259 pgs.

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In this text, Witt explores the work of a group of European writers and artists who came to fascism by way of aesthetics. Her study of the relationship between fascism and modern tragedy encompasses theoretical writing on tragedy.
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The Secret Cause: A Discussion of Tragedy (Chap. 2 "Love: Sophocles' Antigone & Anouilh's Antigone") » Read Now
by Normand Berlin. 189 pgs.

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The Contemporary French Theatre: The Flight from Naturalism (Chap. 9 "Jean Anouilh") » Read Now
by Joseph Chiari. 242 pgs.

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20th Century French Drama (Chap. 4 "Commercialism Reconsidered: Anouilh") » Read Now
by David I. Grossvogel. 378 pgs.

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...ruling the Parisian stage at the time, Jean Cocteau Parade can be viewed as an experiment...years before the First World War when Jean Cocteau was in his early twenties...
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Drama from Ibsen to Eliot ("Jean Anouilh: A Comment" begins on p. 196) » Read Now
by Raymond Williams. 274 pgs.

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...175 VII LUIGI PIRANDELLO 185 VIII JEAN ANOUILH: A COMMENT 196 PART II I...this same realisation of inarticulacy, is the school of Jean-Jacques Bernard, normally called the...
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The Alienated Hero in Modern French Drama (1962) (Discussion of Jean Anouilh begins on p. 58) » Read Now
by Robert Emmet Jones. 138 pgs.

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...many critics also invariably place Anouilh, Montherlant, and Sartre in the...alienated hero in the dramas of Jean-Jacques Bernard, Gide, Vildrac...Claudel, Henri de...
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Dionysus in Paris: Guide to Contemporary French Theater (1960) ("Anouilh (1910-)" begins on p. 110) » Read Now
by Wallace Fowlie. 320 pgs.

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...Sartre, Julien Green. The case of Jean Anouilh, who has always been exclusively...The only possible successor is Jean Anouilh, who has written twenty-one full-length...He...