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Five Plays: Antigone, Eurydice, The Ermine, The Rehearsal, Romeo and Jeannette (Five Plays)
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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...more
Paperback, 280 pages
Published
September 28th 1990
by Hill and Wang
(first published 1958)
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Eurydice is a wonderful play on the myth of Orpheus that sets in modern time. For me it was a heart wrenching read that insprired some very bad poetry on my part. That aside it is still a great play that I would love to see staged sometime. Also, in this collection is his version of Antigone. In Annoulih's play, she is fated to be a victim of a world gone amuck where her uncle has become a tryant and won't let her bury her beloved brother. Love, as in Eurydice, becomes the trigger. Now th...more
I remembered that I had this collection while I was reading Romola, because there is some Antigone/Oedipus symbolism early in that novel and I did a little refresher with Wikipedia. Previously, I'd read two versions of the tragedy for high school English class in 1999, a classical translation which I didn't like much, and this Anouilh adaptation which I loved. This was, I think, the first time I encountered a serious rewrite of an ancient story, particularly within drama, and it hugely influen...more
I'm reading this on Manny's recommendation. He likes it because he is an insane romantic. I've read Romeo and Jeanette, Antigone and Eurydice so far, I have The Ermine and The Rehearsal left.
از ژان آنویی چند نمایش نامه به فارسی ترجمه شده است، از آن جمله "رومئو و ژانت"
This book of plays begs the question, how many times can one playwrights ask, "Does it hurt to die?" and how many different answers can he give?
I only read Antigone and Romeo and Jeannette from this. Pretty good. Antigone was awesome.
Antigone *****
Eurydice ****
The Ermine **
The Rehearsal ***
Romeo and Jeannette ****
Eurydice ****
The Ermine **
The Rehearsal ***
Romeo and Jeannette ****
Excellent collection of plays, Antigone being my favorite.
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Anouilh was born in Cérisole, a small village on the outskirts of Bordeaux and had Basque ancestry. His father was a tailor and Anouilh maintained that he inherited from him a pride in conscientious craftmanship. He may owe his artistic bent to his mother, a violinist who supplemented the family's meager income by playing summer seasons in the casino orchestra in the nearby seaside resort of Arcac...more
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