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Twice married, he lived mainly in Switzerland for the last thirty years of his life. The Best Books of Early Modern and Renaissance Plays: Commentary and notes by Ted Freeman. Hollywood Fringe – anouilh’s antigone (barbara bray) Description ‘Anouilh is a poet, but not of words: Bloomsbury AcademicDec 14, – Drama – 72 pages. In defying the tyrant Creon and going to her death, Antigone conveyed to Anouilh’s compatriots a covert message of heroic resistance but the author’s characterisaation of Creon transalted seemed to exonerate Marshal Petain and his fellow collaborators. In defying the tyrant Creon and going to her death, Antigone conveyed to Anouilh’s compatriots a covert message of heroic Translated by, Barbara Bray. “Antigone” by Jean Anouilh,, available at Book Depository with free By (author) Jean Anouilh, Translated by Barbara Bray, Edited by Dan. By: Jean Anouilh Editor(s): Ted Freeman Translator: Barbara Bray. The thesis concludes that Sophocles uses suicide as a motif to emphasise the importance of the oikos in maintaining the stability of the polis.‘Anouilh is a poet, but not of words: he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, Antigone. The argument posits that Ajax’s and Antigone’s position of isolation from their environments is the primary cause of their suicides. Emile Durkheim’s suicide theory provides this exploration with its theoretical framework, and his categorisations of suicide types: egoistic, altruistic, anomic and fatalistic are applied to Sophocles’ characterisations of the protagonists in these plays. The plays chosen for this analysis are Sophocles’ Ajax and Antigone. This thesis attempts to determine the social forces acting upon the act of suicide in Attic tragic drama.
Accepting drama as a mimetic art form, we can safely posit that the tragedians in Athens at this time were concerned about suicide.
Suicide plays a significant, if not central role, in thirteen of them. Contents Abstract Page ii Introduction 1 Chapter One: Theory and Critics 6 Chapter Two: Ajax 10 Chapter Three: Antigone 23 3.1 Creon’s Argument 26 3.2 Antigone’s Argument 31 Conclusion 41 Bibliography 43 Abstract Suicide is present to a greater or lesser extent in 23 of the extant Attic tragedies from the latter half of the fifth-century BCE.
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