wthorne, held that the study of the classical myths was essential to the understanding of English and American literature.[106] In more recent times, classical themes have been reinterpreted by dramatists Jean Anouilh, Jean Cocteau, and Jean Giraudoux in France, Eugene O'Neill in America, and T. S. Eliot in Britain and by novelists such as James Joyce and Andr?? Gide.[2][edit] Notes^ Volume: Hell