* Modern works based on the story of Thomas Becket include T. S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral, Jean Anouilh's play Becket, which was made into a movie with the same title, and Paul Webb's play Four Nights in Knaresborough.

" His post-war plays dealt with similar concerns and included Roméo et Jeannette, Médée ( Medea ), and Anouilh's Joan of Arc story L ' Alouette ( The Lark ), which, in its distinct optimism, rivalled the commercial success of Antigone.

Anouilh's plays provides the most important clues about his political point of view, though their reputation for ambiguity further complicates the matter.

* Alexander is a character in Jean Anouilh's play Becket.

Louis is a character in Jean Anouilh's play Becket.

Matilda is a character in Jean Anouilh's play Becket.

There is also a pronounced link, during this time, of Anouilh's emphasis of theatre and the family, displaying intimate relationships that are " more profound and more important than the traditional heightened action of ' theatre '".

Jean Anouilh's play Antigone is a tragedy inspired by Greek mythology and the play of the same name ( Antigone, by Sophocles ) from the fifth century B. C.

Most of Anouilh's plays of the late 1940s and into the 1950s become darker and distinctly cruel and, in contrast with his earlier works, begin to feature middle-aged characters who must view life more practically than Anouilh's former idealistic youths.

Anouilh's work had always contained hints of metatheatricality, or commentatry on the business of theatre within the world of the play, but in his late works these structures became more fully developed as he begins to write primarily about character who are dramatists or theatre directors.

Cornell also cast him as The Messenger in a her production of Jean Anouilh's Antigone that same year.

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.

Anouilh's financial troubles continued after he was called up to military service in 1929.

Though she would go on to star in many of his plays, Anouilh's daughter Caroline ( from his second marriage ), claims that the marriage was not a happy one.

Anouilh's youngest daughter Colombe even claims that there has never been an official marriage between Anouilh and Valentin.

Anouilh's growing family placed further strain on his already limited finances.

Though Anouilh's boss had happily lent him some of the set furniture left over from the production of Jean Giraudoux's play Siegfried to furnish his modest home, the director was not interested in encouraging his assistant's attempts at playwriting.

Ruled by the philosophy, " the word creates the decor ," Lugné-Poe let Anouilh's lyrical prose shine in front of a backdrop of simple compositions of line and color that created a unity of style and mood.

After 1938, however, much of Anouilh's later work was directed by the prominent Paris scenic designer André Barsacq, who had taken over as director of the Théâtre de l ' Atelier after Charles Dullin's retirement in 1940.

" By contrast, in Anouilh's pièces roses or " pink plays " were comedies where fantasy dominated with an atmosphere similar to that of fairy tales.

Anouilh's final period begins with La Grotte ( The Cavern ), in which he comments on his own progress as a writer and a theatre artist.

This controversy escalated as a result of Anouilh's public clashes with leader of the Free French Forces ( and later President of the Fifth Republic ), General Charles de Gaulle.

By the end of his career, Anouilh's reputation would outstrip all his contemporaries.

Most French dramatists of the 1930s and 1940s, including Anouilh's most significant contemporary influence, Giraudoux, not only wrote for the stage but also composed poetry, novels, or essays.

In spring 2011 Resnais completed filming Vous n ' avez encore rien vu, which again took the theatre as its theme and background, and was loosely based on Jean Anouilh's 1941 play Eurydice.

It was originally written as part of the incidental music for Jean Anouilh's play Léocadia ( 1940 ), but it achieved fame outside that context.

Pleasence was nominated four times for the Tony Award for best performance by a leading actor in a Broadway play: in 1962 for Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, in 1965 for Jean Anouilh's Poor Bitos, in 1969 for Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth, and in 1972 for Simon Gray's Wise Child.

Hellman made an English-language adaption of Jean Anouilh's play, L ' Alouette, based on the trial of Joan of Arc, called The Lark.

* The Lark ( 1955 ), adapted from Jean Anouilh's play

The first play, Jean Anouilh's Colombe, opened on 31 August 1953, starring Zoe Caldwell ( who was later to have considerable success on Broadway ), George Fairfax, and Alex Scott.

* Antigone ( Anouilh play ), Jean Anouilh's play

The screenwriter earned a second Academy Award for his excellent adaptation of Jean Anouilh's play Becket ( 1964 ).

Later that year, he appeared in his first hit on Broadway, co-starring with Julie Harris ( who won a Tony Award ) in Jean Anouilh's The Lark.

He made his London debut on June 11, 1961 playing King Henry II in Jean Anouilh's Becket with the RSC at the Aldwych Theatre, directed by Peter Hall.

He also starred in the TV adaptations of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story ( 1959 ), Bernard Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion ( 1960 ), Jean Anouilh's Time Remembered ( playing the role of Prince Albert originated by Richard Burton on Broadway ), and Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac ( 1962 ).

In 2004, she played Dotty Otley in Michael Frayn's Noises Off at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts, and in 2006 Rupp appeared on stage in Pittsfield, Massachusetts as a kooky mother in French playwright Jean Anouilh's comedy Ring Round the Moon at Barrington Stage Company.

She continued to divide her appearances between stage, TV and film, appearing in the title role of a television production of Jean Anouilh's Antigone in 1969 and in the 1970 film Cromwell as Queen Henrietta Maria, before playing another Queen in 1970 – Anne Boleyn in the BBC's series The Six Wives of Henry VIII, which starred Keith Michell in the title role.

Other stage work in the 1960s included Anouilh's Poor Bitos ( 1967 ) and Robert Shaw's The Man in The Glass Booth ( 1967 ), for which he won the London Variety Award for Stage Actor of the Year in 1968.

" In its 1957 season, he appeared as Mr. Mayher in Agatha Christie's Witness For The Prosecution ( July 1957 ), as Hector in Jane Anouilh's Thieves Carnival ( July 1957 ), and the role which he once described as the " catalyst of his career "-as Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge ( from July 30 to August 3, 1957 and directed by Ulu Grosbard who was by then a regular director at the Gateway Theatre ).

* Beginning in 1960, Ms. Lortel began a presenting a series of presentations and seminars at the Library of Congress which included: Sean O ' Casey's Time To Go ; Conrad Aiken's The Coming Forth by Day of Osiris Jones and The Kid ; Ionesco's The Shepherd's Chameleon ; Edward Albee's Fam and Yam ; Anouilh's Medea ; Margaret Webster's The Brontes ; Mark Van Doren's The Last Days of Lincoln ; Donald Hall's An Evening's Frost ; Norman Rosten's Come Slowly Eden ; Ring Lardner's A Round with Ring ; P. J.

However, the disadvantages of this historical interpretation soon became apparent.

However, this political restriction is less confining than it may first appear in that the Marxist historical framework is surprisingly flexible, and a rather simple matter to modify an alternative historical theory to use language that at least does not challenge the Marxist interpretation of history.

Scholarly debate over the interpretation of these passages has focused on placing them in proper historical context, for instance pointing out that Sodom's sins are historically interpreted as being other than homosexuality, and on the translation of rare or unusual words in the passages in question.

In the early 1980s, Paul Hirst and Barry Hindess elaborated a structural Marxism interpretation of historical materialism.

This interpretation has been formulated on sketchy and hypothetical etymological and historical connections.

Based on some etymological interpretation of the words strava and medos, and subsequent historical appearance, the latter has been taken to include a form of pre-Slavic language.

Freud's interpretation of the historical Moses is not well accepted among historians, and is considered pseudohistory by many.

Given the importance of Nietzsche ’ s contribution to the topic of nihilism, Heidegger's influential interpretation of Nietzsche is important for the historical development of the term nihilism.

[...] often our interviewees were keen to persuade us of a certain interpretation of the past, supporting broad, sweeping comments about historical change with specific stories from their lives.

Most archaeologists reject this interpretation, seeing Omri as historical.

They disagree, however, on the interpretation of the historical evidence from this era regarding the prerogatives of the Bishop of Rome as protos, a matter that was already understood in different ways in the first millennium.

The historical literature on Puritans is, however quite problematic and subject to controversies of interpretation.

Structuralists also seek to understand the historical interpretation of cultural concepts, but focus their efforts on understanding how those concepts were understood by the author in his or her own time, rather than how they may be understood by the reader in the present.

Finally, techniques of historical revisionism operate within the intellectual battlespace in order to advance an interpretation or perception of history.

Related to this is the concept of shadow history or secret history, in which the events of a story occur within the bounds of already-established events ( especially real-world historical events ), revealing a different interpretation of ( or motivation for ) the events.

9788890177064 The book was written " to stop the conventional hand-clapping and any preconceived interpretation of Vatican II and to open a far-ranging debate on its historical, theological, and dogmatic significance " ( Brunero Gherardini, ' Il discorso mancato ' ( Lindau 2011 ) p. 48 ).

One of the reasons is political interference upon the French historical interpretation during the 19th century.

Living history museums recreate historical settings to simulate past time periods, providing visitors with an experiential interpretation of history.

Joseph Ratzinger, later elected pope, identified three overall motifs in Dei Verbum: ( 1 ) the new view of the phenomenon of tradition ; ( 2 ) the theological problem of the application of critical historical methods to the interpretation of Scripture ; and ( 3 ) the biblical movement that had been growing from the turn of the twentieth century.

A literal interpretation of the passages, in which the command refers specifically to a manual strike against the side of a person's face, can be supported by reference to historical and other factors.

This act of Congress established the Manzanar National Historic Site " to provide for the protection and interpretation of the historical, cultural, and natural resources associated with the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Modern interpretation of historical, archaeological and anthropological evidence has proposed two broad hypotheses.

Like in any other historical discipline, most research in music history can be roughly divided into two categories: the establishing of factual and correct data and the interpretation of data.

However, crucial to the practice of musical semiotics-the interpretation of meaning in a work or style-is its situation in an historical context.