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Which of Jean Anouilh's plays is most renowned?

  • Romeo and Juliet

  • Macbeth

  • Othello

  • Antigone

Answer

Antigone is the most renowned play of Jean Anouilh. It is a modern adaptation of the classical Greek tragedy by Sophocles. The play was first produced in 1944 and tells the story of Antigone, a young woman who is condemned to death by Creon, the king of Thebes, for defying his orders to leave her brother Polyneices unburied.
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