These original plays and novels accompanied by French-English vocabularies and a variety of pedagogical apparatus, are appropriate as intermediate or advanced readers.

Le Voyageur Sans Bagage (French Edition)

ANOUILH, JEAN

Literature & Fiction

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime which mirrors the predicament of the French people of the time. 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

Antigone (French Literary Texts)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

La Table Ronde

Antigone (Modern World Literature Series)

Dramas & Plays

Harrap

Waltz of the Toreadors (French Edition)

The great French playwright Jean Anouilh (1910-87) wrote both "pink" bittersweet comedies and "black" tragic dramas. Jean Anouilh Five Plays―the finest English-language anthology of his works―crackles with both his sharp wit and his icy cynicism. In Antigone, his preeminent play and exemplar of his themes and style, he creates a disturbing world in which fate may be no more than a game of role-playing. Eurydice, The Ermine, The Rehearsal, Romeo and Jeannette are the other plays included in this edition.

Five Plays: Antigone, Eurydice, The Ermine, The Rehearsal, Romeo and Jeannette

Hill and Wang

Becket : Or the Honor of God

Becket

Perigee Trade

A selection of the most enduring work of one of this century's best-known French playwrights
 Jean Anouilh (1910-87) along with Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, was at the forefront of the post-war generation of playwrights in Paris. In England his plays were championed by Peter Brook. Antigone is a response to the German occupation of France and established his popularity in 1944 (the Germans ironically, thought that it was a pro-Nazi in its portrayal of King Creon and thus allowed its production); Poor Bitos, Anouilh's angriest play explores the act of judicial murder and The Lark is a version of the Joan of Arc story. All three plays show his fondness for reworking myth, history and legend. Meanwhile Leocadia, about an opera singer who dies after a three day love affair with a prince and The Waltz of the Toreadors, about a general whose mistress attempts to prove his wife's infidelity, represent another talent - for ironic, modern comedy."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)

Anouilh Plays: One: Antigone, Léocadia, The Waltz of the Toreadors, The Lark, and Poor Bitos (World Dramatists Series) (Bk. 1)

Methuen Drama

Anouilh's classic historical tale of conflict between church and state, in a major new translation by Frederic and Stephen Raphael In Becket, Anouilh presents the history of England under Henry II as if it was France under German occupation. As Henry's long-time political playmate, Thomas's elevation to Archbishop of Canterbury forces him to sacrifice the love of his leader for his newfound love of the church: "If I become archbishop I shall cease to be your friend." Becket was first produced at the Theatre Montparnasse in 1959.This new translation is published to tie in with a production of the play opening at London's Theatre Royal, Haymarket.

Methuen Publishing

When a group of sophisticated noblemen put on Marivaux's "The Double Inconstancy", they hope only to destroy the tedium of country life. Instead they come close to detroying their own coterie and exposing their codes of behaviour as fraudulent. The plawright's other work includes "The Lark".

The Rehearsal

METHUEN

A selection of the most enduring work of one of this century's best-known French playwrightsThis selection of plays by Jean Anouilh (1910-87), includes The Rehearsal ('quintissential Anouilh', Herald Tribune); Becket ('witty, intelligent, full of repartee and irreverence' Financial Times); The Orchestra (a play within a concert), together with Eurydice, an ironic modern reworkng of the myth ('a fascinating piece', Financial Times)."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)

Anouilh Plays: 2: The Rehearsal; Becket; The Orchestra; Eurydice (World Classics)

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Le Voyageur Sans Bagage (French Edition)

Antigone (French Literary Texts)

Antigone (Modern World Literature Series)

Waltz of the Toreadors (French Edition)

Five Plays: Antigone, Eurydice, The Ermine, The Rehearsal, Romeo and Jeannette

Becket

Anouilh Plays: One: Antigone, Léocadia, The Waltz of the Toreadors, The Lark, and Poor Bitos (World Dramatists Series) (Bk. 1)

Becket

The Rehearsal

Anouilh Plays: 2: The Rehearsal; Becket; The Orchestra; Eurydice (World Classics)