<div>The great French playwright Jean Anouilh (1910-87) wrote both "pink" bittersweet comedies and "black" tragic dramas. <i>Jean Anouilh Five Plays</i><b>—</b>the finest English-language anthology of his works<b>—</b>crackles with both his sharp wit and his icy cynicism. In <i>Antigone</i>, 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. <i>Eurydice</i>,<i> The Ermine</i>, <i>The Rehearsal</i>, R<i>omeo and Jeannette</i> are the other plays included in this edition.<br></div>