Glyn Maxwell: Plays One

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Includes the plays The Lifeblood, Wolfpit, The Only Girl in the World A history, a legend, a rumour - three stories drawn from the shadows of England. The Lifeblood depicts the last days of Mary Queen of Scots, as four men weave about her a web of love and hatred; Wolfpit brings alive the extraordinary chronicle of the Green Children of Suffolk who appeared inexplicably one summer morning; and love comes to Mary Kelly, The Only Girl in the World otherwise known as the last victim of Jack the Ripper..

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Maxwell is the best dramatic poet now at work in English. * Daily Telegraph *

Author Bio

Glyn Maxwell has long been regarded as one of Britains major poets. He has been awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Prize, and the E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as being shortlisted three times for both the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes. Three of his books were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. His One Thousand Nights and Counting: Selected Poems was published last year. Many of his plays have been staged in London and New York. They include The Lifeblood, which was British Theatre Guides Best Play on the Fringe at Edinburgh in 2004, Broken Journey and The Only Girl in the World (both Time Out Critics Choices). Oberon Books publishes his Plays One (The Lifeblood, The Only Girl in the World and Wolfpit), Plays Two (Broken Journey, Best Man Speech and The Last Valentine), The Forever Waltz, Liberty, After Troy, Merlin and the Woods of Time and the libretti The Lions Face and Seven Angels.