Five Plays by Jean Anouilh

Five Plays by Jean Anouilh

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.

Jean Anouilh was born in Bordeaux in 1910 and resided in Switzerland for many years before passing away in 1987. Restless Heart (1934), Dinner with the Family (1937), Traveller without Luggage (1938), Thieves' Carnival (1939), Leocadia (1939), Point of Departure (Eurydice) (1941), A ntigone (1944), the Rehearsal (1950), The Waltz of the Toreadors (1952), The Lark (1953), Poor Bitos (1956), and The Director of the Opera (1973) are among his best-known plays. Methuen's collected plays are published in two volumes. Fre deric Raphael is the author of nineteen novels, as well as translations, articles, and radio plays.