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Jean Anouilh

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Jean Anouilh , 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. Several of his later plays have contemporary and historical settings. Anouilh's works frequently contrast the worlds of romantic dreams and harsh reality. He has also written film scripts, one of which, Little Molière (1959) was successfully... Read more

Anouilh, Jean
Anouilh, Jean (1910–87), playwright. Often called the leading French dramatist of his day, he observed both the lighter and darker sides... Read more

Jean Anouilh
Jean Anouilh The French playwright Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) was an accomplished craftsman. His plays, from...the theater to elucidate his views of the human predicament. Jean Anouilh was born in C é risole, near Bordeaux, on June 23, 1910... Read more

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