This author of Eurydice wrote about Joan of Arc in The Lark, and he wrote a play in which Creon's orders for the title character to stop burying her brother are a thinly veiled critique of the contemporaneous Vichy government.
In the final scene of one of this author's plays, the title character offers a gold ring to a soldier in exchange for transcribing a dictated final message so that the soldier can later smuggle it out. This author was inspired to write that play after Paul Collette attempted to assassinate a politician. In another of this author's plays, an accordion player forces the title character, who is a woman killed in a traffic accident, to admit that she was the lover of Dulac the theatre impresario. In a third play by this author, which Lillian Hellman adapted into English, Warwick's desire to execute a woman is stalled by Cauchon's examination of her life. This author of Eurydice wrote about Joan of Arc in The Lark, and he wrote a play in which Creon's orders for the title character to stop burying her brother are a thinly veiled critique of the contemporaneous Vichy government. For 10 points, name this French dramatist who adapted Sophocles's Antigone.
In the final scene of one of this author's plays, the title character offers a gold ring to a soldier in exchange for transcribing a dictated final message so that the soldier can later smuggle it out.
Jean Anouilh