Five Plays: Antigone Eurydice The Ermine The Rehearsal Romeo and Jeannette: 1

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 Jeannette are the other plays included in this edition.