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 Playsthe finest English-language anthology of his workscrackles 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 Jeannette are the other plays included in this edition.