by Jean Anouilh · Methuen Educational Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780423812008
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«L'Alouette» is the play by Jean Anouilh, published in 1956 by Methuen Educational Ltd in paperback (162 pages, in French).
The play begins with Joan of Arc's trial and, through flashbacks, revives the voices that drove her and her mission to free France from the English in the Hundred Years' War. Anouilh drew on the trial records to alternate between the historical view and the protagonist's personal experience.
It belongs to the Methuen's Twentieth Century Texts series, edited by Merlin Thomas and Simon Lee; includes introduction and notes in English.
Intended for students of French or French theatre who want to read the original work with academic support in English.
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.
