Five Plays
Antigone, Eurydice, the Ermine, the Rehearsal, Romeo and Jeannette
Farrar Straus & Giroux · Print & ebook · September 28, 1990
The great French playwright Jean Anouilh (1910-87) wrote both "pink" bittersweet comedies and "black" tragic dramas.
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- Who it’s for
- Five plays move between bittersweet comedy and tragedy, with sharp wit and an icy edge.
- Themes
- Fate as role-playing
- Genres
- French Plays, Classical Plays
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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.
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Eurydice, The Ermine, The Rehearsal, Romeo and Jeannette are the other plays included in this edition.
Wit and Ice
Five plays move between bittersweet comedy and tragedy, with sharp wit and an icy edge.
Come here for
- The tension between comic brightness and bleakness
- A fresh, unsettling take on fate in Antigone
Expect
- Five plays by Jean Anouilh
- A theatrical mix of sharp wit and cool cynicism
Where it sits
| French Plays | 93% |
|---|---|
| Classical Plays | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- French Plays
- Authors
- Jean Anouilh
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Published
- September 28, 1990
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Fate as role-playing
- Reading lane
- French Plays