A collection of four plays by Camus in English translation. It includes Caligula, about a Roman emperor who turns absolute power into a harsh experiment with freedom and truth, and The Misunderstanding, a bleak story of an inn and a failed homecoming.
The volume also contains State of Siege, an allegorical drama in which a Spanish town falls under a tyrannical rule, and The Just Assassins, based on a group of Russian revolutionaries debating the limits of violence. Together they show Camus the dramatist exploring tyranny, conscience and the absurd on stage.