Fair Ladies At A Game Of Poem Cards
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Fair Ladies At A Game Of Poem Cards
By (Author) Peter Oswald
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Methuen Drama
1st August 2006
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
822.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
96
Width 126mm, Height 198mm
300g
Description
A play by one of Britain's foremost verse playwrights
Two pairs of lovers are threatened with death by the jealousy of a cunning and powerful lord. But love is not easily crushed, and its ultimate triumph transforms the whole of society. Taking the storyline of an eighteenth century puppet play by the great Japanese playwright, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Peter Oswald has written a new play in iambic pentameters for living actors.
"An elaborate, philosophically nuanced and often funny tale of love" (Independent)
Author Bio
Peter Oswald was born in England in 1965. His original plays include the verse plays Allbright and Valadonama, and Fair Ladies At A Game Of Poem Cards, Augustines Oak, Ramayana, and Sha Kuntala. He has also adapted plays by Sophocles and Lorca.
