The play depicts Caligula, torn by the death of Drusilla, his sister. In Camus' version of events, Caligula eventually deliberately manipulates his own assassination. (Historically, Caligula's ...

Play It As It Lays explores the same territory — Hollywood — with a more ruminative yet pessimistic voice, an Eleanor Perry–ish vibe that actually belongs to Joan Didion, who co-wrote the ...

Camus’ Caligula, whose once very human blood has ... It is in part because a dehumanized hero is, in morality-play fashion, surrounded by flatly allegorical types who seldom seem human either ...

Last week a half-page splash in the New York Times heralded Albert Camus’ early (1938) play, Caligula, which had just opened for the first time on Broadway (see THEATER). The major daily critics ...