Caligula and Other Plays

'I want to drown the sky in the sea, to infuse ugliness with beauty, to wring a laugh from pain'

Camus' powerful drama 'Caligula' portrays a monstruous emperor who, in destroying everything around him, destroy men, god and ultimately himself.The other plays here also reveal Camus' deep sense of humanity and powers of description: 'Cross Purpose', portraying a universe in which cruel, inexplicable things happen to the innocent and evil alike, and the political works 'The Just' and 'The Possessed', which dramatize action and revolt in the name of liberty.

Caligula/Cross Purpose/The Possessed/The Just