Cover of Five Plays: Antigone, Eurydice, The Ermine, The Rehearsal, Romeo and Jeannette

Five Plays: Antigone, Eurydice, The Ermine, The Rehearsal, Romeo and Jeannette

The great French playwright Jean Anouilh (1910-87) wrote both "pink" bittersweet comedies and "black" tragic dramas. Jean Anouilh Five Plays—the finest English-language anthology of his works—crackles with both his sharp wit and his icy cynicism. In Antigone, his preeminent play and exemplar of his themes and style, he creates a disturbing world in which fate may be no more than a game of role-playing. Eurydice,The Ermine, The Rehearsal, Romeo and Jeannetteare the other plays included in this edition.

Themes
theatre
Setting
1950s
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages
Form
plays

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