by Jean Anouilh · Perigee Trade · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780399513541
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Becket is a play by Jean Anouilh that portrays the conflict of loyalties to church and state as they influenced the lives of two powerful men in English history. The play focuses on the relationship between Henry II of England and Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and explores themes of honor, duty, and faith.
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 production of Sophocles' Antigone, which, though performed without objection by censors, was nevertheless seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. His plays are less experimental than those of his contemporaries, having clearly organized plot and eloquent dialogue. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.
