Books like No Exit and Three Other Plays
Four plays, among them No Exit, in which three dead strangers are shown into a windowless drawing room in hell, and Dirty Hands, about a young communist ordered to kill a party leader.
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The Age of Reason
Over two days in Paris in the summer of 1938, Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher who prizes his freedom above everything, tries to raise the money for his mistress's abortion.
Nausea
A philosopher in 1930s France discovers that the sheer existence of objects fills him with revulsion, and his diary charts the horror of a world without meaning.
Caligula
A play: after the death of his sister Drusilla, the young emperor Caligula decides that men die and are not happy, and sets out to use his absolute power to live by that truth.
A Happy Death
Patrice Mersault, an Algiers shipping clerk, kills a rich, crippled man and takes his money, then sets out to buy the time to be happy.
The Cocktail Party
A verse play: at a cocktail party Edward Chamberlayne is trying to explain why his wife has left him, and an uninvited guest who will not give his name begins to rearrange several lives.
Saint Joan
A play: Joan, a farm girl from Domrémy who hears the voices of saints, talks her way to the Dauphin and leads the French army to Orléans, and the Church and the English take note.
Endgame
A play: in a bare room after some unexplained catastrophe, blind, chair-bound Hamm and his servant Clov, who cannot sit down, play out their last moves while Hamm's parents live in two dustbins.
Six Characters in Search of an Author
A play: a theatre company rehearsing a Pirandello comedy is interrupted by six strangers, a family of characters abandoned by their author, who demand that their unfinished drama be staged.
Man and Superman
A play: John Tanner, a radical writer who fears marriage above all things, is made guardian of Ann Whitefield, who has quietly decided to marry him.
Henry IV
A play: twenty years after a fall from his horse at a costume pageant, a wealthy Italian still believes he is the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, and his old circle arrives with a doctor to try to cure him.
Jean Barois
Told largely in dialogue and documents, the life of Jean Barois, raised a Catholic, who loses his faith to science, founds a crusading review during the Dreyfus Affair and faces death.
Waiting for Godot
Two tramps wait by a country road for a Godot who does not come, in a play that decided what modern theatre would even be for.