When was antigone written
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Antigone
JEAN ANOUILH 1944
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Jean Anouilh’s Antigone is an adaptation of Sophocles’ tragic play of the same title. Written in 1942, when Nazi forces occupied France, the story revolves around the conflict between the idealist Antigone and her rigid uncle, Creon, over the proper burial of Antigone’s brother, Polynices. The play was also interpreted to represent the struggle of the French Resistance movement against the forces of the Vichy government during the height of Nazi occupation.
Antigone is one in a series of Anouilh’s plays based on Greek mythology. Disillusioned and shocked by the events of World War II, he also wrote Eurydice (1942) and Médée (first performed in 1937; published 1946), which were also adapted versions of the original Greek classics. These plays explored the role of destiny in people’s lives.
Often considered his masterpiece, Antigone cemented Anouilh’s reputation as a dramatist. The play was an instant success
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Antigone (Sophocles play)
Tragedy by Sophocles
This article is about the play by Sophocles. For the main character in the play, see Antigone.
Antigone (ann-TIG-ə-nee; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνη) is an Atheniantragedy written by Sophocles in (or before) 441 BC and first performed at the Festival of Dionysus of the same year. It is thought to be the second-oldest surviving play of Sophocles, preceded by Ajax, which was written around the same period. The play is one of a triad of tragedies known as the three Theban plays, following Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. Even though the events in Antigone occur last in the order of events depicted in the plays, Sophocles wrote Antigone first.[1] The story expands on the Theban legend that predates it, and it picks up where Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes ends. The play is named after the main protagonist Antigone.
After Oedipus' self-exile, his sons Eteocles and Polynices engaged in a civil war for the Theban throne, which resulted in both brothers dying while fighting each other. Oedipus' brother-in-law an
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Robert Bagg, born on 21 September 1935, grew up in Millburn, New Jersey. In high school he played varsity golf, JV football, and began to publish humorous sketches (modeled on those of Robert Benchley) in the school newspaper.
Impressed by the extreme poems, exotic personality, romantic adventures, and harsh death by drowning of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bagg decided to make writing poetry and studying literature his lifetime calling. His parents did not disapprove, but sent him to Amherst College (his father's alma mater) thinking that its faculty would either endorse or discourage their son's chosen vocation. In college Bagg studied first with Walker Gibson and then with James Merrill, who told him to forget Shelley and his imaginary landscapes and write about the adventures of his suburban youth. He took their advice and wrote several narrative poems in iambic pentameter about boyhood pranks and adventures in his Sagamore Road neighborhood, one of which was made into a film by Richard Wechsler, who later became a Hollywood writer and producer. At Amherst Bagg alarmed Ro
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