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Five Plays
Antigone, Eurydice, the Ermine, the Rehearsal, Romeo and Jeannette
Jean Anouilh
Farrar Straus & Giroux · Print & ebook · September 28, 1990
Reading lane: French Plays
The great French playwright Jean Anouilh (1910-87) wrote both "pink" bittersweet comedies and "black" tragic dramas.
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Why This Clicks
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
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- Five plays by Jean Anouilh
- A theatrical mix of sharp wit and cool cynicism
Book Details
- Authors
- Jean Anouilh
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Published
- September 28, 1990
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- French Plays · French Literary Collections
- Reading lane
- French Plays
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About This Book
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 , R omeo and Jeannette are the...
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