Or, / by Liz Duffy Adams.Or, / by Liz Duffy Adams.
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Auteur
Titre
Or, / by Liz Duffy Adams.
Description
50 p. ; 20 cm.
Sommaire
Or, takes place (mostly) during one night in the life of Aphra Behn, poet, spy, and soon to be first professional female playwright. Sprung from debtors’ prison after a disastrous overseas mission, Aphra is desperate to get out of the spy trade. She has a shot at a production at one of only two London companies, if she can only finish her play by morning despite interruptions from sudden new love, actress Nell Gwynne; complicated royal love, King Charles II; and very dodgy ex-love, double-agent William Scott—who may be in on a plot to murder the king in the morning. Can Aphra save Charles’ life, win William a pardon, resist Nell’s charms, and launch her career, all in one night? Against a background of a long drawn-out war and a counter-culture of free love, cross-dressing, and pastoral lyricism, the 1660s look a lot like the 1960s in this neo-Restoration comedy from the playwright the San Francisco Bay Guardian called “an artist of playful and highly literate imagination, radical instincts, and sardonic but generous humor.”
Production
Comedy ; 1m, 2w.
First public performance : Julia Miles Theater, on November 3, 2009, New York (Unites States).
Director : Wendy McClellan.
ISBN
9780822224587 (pbk.)
0822224585 (pbk.)
Sujets
Caractéristiques
Women
Cote
D A2141or 2010
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