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Yayaya
Modern French dramatist, Jean Anouilh, is a great tragic
playwright of the twentieth century. His best known work is
Antigone, a modern version of Sophocles' tragedy. Anouilh's
Antigone also provides a commentary on the Nazi occupation of
France. In rewriting the myth in modern times, Anouilh revives the
issue of free will under the power of the state.
Sophocles' tragedy is set in Greece, but Anouilh wishes to indicate
the timeless, universal nature of this conflict of human law versus
divine law. He sets the play on a simple stage that could be
anywhere. There is a staircase of three steps forming
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