{"product_id":"anouilh-plays-one-antigone-leocadia-the-waltz-of-the-toreadors-the-lark-and-poor-bitos-world-dramatists-series-bk-1-041314030x","title":"Anouilh Plays: One: Antigone, Léocadia, The Waltz of the Toreadors, The Lark, and Poor Bitos (World Dramatists Series) (Bk. 1)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 041314030X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Anouilh, Jean\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA selection of the most enduring work of one of this century's best-known French playwrightsJean 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)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51859511247136,"sku":"NEW041314030X","price":34.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/816b8cXQA1L.jpg?v=1781589217","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/anouilh-plays-one-antigone-leocadia-the-waltz-of-the-toreadors-the-lark-and-poor-bitos-world-dramatists-series-bk-1-041314030x","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}