Show Plot Antigone, 1940's Adaption

Authors: Jean Anouilh

Time Period: 1940s

Setting: Nazi-occupied France

Summary: 

The 1940s adaptation of Antigone is a 1944 play by French playwright Jean Anouilh. Written during the Nazi occupation of France, it serves as a tense allegory for the French Resistance. The play centers on Antigone, a young idealist who defies her uncle Creon—a pragmatic ruler representing the collaborationist Vichy government—to bury her disgraced brother.