Biography
Jean Anouilh was born in 1910 in Bordeaux and is among the most performed French playwrights of the twentieth century. His new version of Antigone (1944) became a symbol of resistance. Anouilh himself divided his plays into cheerful and dark ones. He adapted ancient material and historical figures like Thomas Becket and Joan of Arc. He died in 1987 in Lausanne.
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