by Jean Anouilh · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782081249684
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«Médée» is the play by Jean Anouilh, published by Flammarion in paperback (128 pages, in French).
Anouilh takes up Euripides' Medea to tell the myth of the sorceress who helped Jason obtain the Golden Fleece. Years later, abandoned when he is about to marry Creon's daughter, Medea becomes a devastating figure, swept along by vengeance. A drama about love, freedom and destruction.
Part of the Étonnants Classiques collection and presents the complete text.
Suitable for students of French literature and for readers interested in modern theatre and classical myths.
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.
