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Author : Peter Barnes
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN :
"Revolutionary Witness" was written to mark the anniversary of Bastille Day and is a set of four monologues by characters whose lives were changed. "Nobody Here" is a collection of three short plays about being handicapped, which try through farce to turn the tables on common preconceptions.
Author : Peter Barnes
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 22,11 MB
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1408162016
A selection of plays by "one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain" (The Times) The Spirit of Man is "an ingenious triple-bill exploring Man's need for faith through three short satires based in medieval France, Protectorate England and nineteenth-century Eastern Europe" (Independent); Nobody Here But Us Chickens is a linked trilogy of satires on New Age, corporate and bedroom politics. Red Noses is a political satire about the plague and takes place in 1348. Set in medieval Italy during a crisis in the Church, Sunsets and Glories is "a work of the highest and most thrilling theatrical energy" (Independent on Sunday), whilst Bye Bye Columbus is a "highly entertaining" (Guardian) television play. "Peter Barnes is one of the unrecognised geniuses of the English theatre" (Plays and Players)
Author : Peter Barnes
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1408176394
A selection of plays by "one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain" (The Times) Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie is a riotous, scabrous comedy concerning a demonic figure, a destroyer and giver of life, who is always trying to jump, with both feet into his left trouser leg. Heaven's Blessings, taken from the grim pages of the Bible is a charming epic comedy of Tobit, his wife, their son and a cantankerous guardian angel, who set out to reclaim an outstanding IOU, overcoming many dangers which test their faith to breaking point. Revolutionary Witness, about the French Revolution, is a series of four monologues televised by the BBC in 1989. "Peter Barnes is one of the unrecognised geniuses of the English theatre" (Plays and Players)
Author : Marvin Mudrick
Publisher : Berkshire Publishing Group
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1614728879
Nobody Here But Us Chickens is a virtuoso display of literary and hiNobody Here But Us Chickens is a virtuoso display of literary and historical portraiture by Marvin Mudrick, whom the Washington Post called a “literary curmudgeon, randy iconoclast, and a delight.” Mudrick believed that in books, as in life, people matter, and that it matters in books, as it does in life, whether people are decent or not. Sticking to this plain common sense, Mudrick assembles an eye-opening hall of fame and rogues gallery that includes devastating, satirical attacks on Shakespeare, Jesus, and Flaubert, as well as a wide-ranging meditation on heroism. Mudrick devotees will know that he favors Chaucer, Jane Austen, and D. H. Lawrence, all of whom appear here, but we also get to know what he thinks about Coriolanus, Van Gogh, and Solzhenitsyn. Readers unfamiliar with the daring of Mudrick’s opinions and the special texture of his prose will come away from Nobody Here But Us Chickens wishing that critical biography was always this much fun.storical portraiture by Marvin Mudrick, whom the Washington Post called a "literary curmudgeon, randy iconoclast, and a delight."
Author : Peter Barnes
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 38,28 MB
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 140817152X
Set in medieval Italy during a crisis in the Church, Sunsets and Glories is "a work of the highest and most thrilling theatrical energy" (Independent on Sunday) Sunsets and Glories is set in the late thirteenth-century Italy where power struggles between Church and State inspire such characters as the spineless Charles 11, paid killer Montefelto and 'madwoman' Maifreda. Into this maelstrom steps Peter de Morrone, the saintly Pope Celestine V, provoking a bitter crisis of faith in the abiding values of violence and corruption. Once again, Peter Barnes' mordant wit takes history and imbues it with a savage humour. "Peter Barnes is one of the unrecognised geniuses of the English theatre" (Plays and Players)
Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 1996-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1567507433
The year 1956 marked a point when British drama and theater fell into the hands of a group of young playwrights who revolutionized the stage. During that time, playwrights such as Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter made the British theater as rich, varied, and vital as any national theater in history. This reference chronicles the history of British theater from 1956 to 1995 by providing detailed information about the playwrights of that period. Included are entries for some three dozen British playwrights active between 1956 and 1995. Entries are arranged alphabetically to facilitate use. Each entry supplies biographical information, the production history for particular plays, a survey of the playwright's critical reception, an assessment of the dramatist's work, and primary and secondary bibliographies. A selected, general bibliography at the end of the volume directs the reader to important sources of additional information about this period in theater history.
Author : Peter Barnes
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1408177579
A haunting and brutally funny story of heroism and human values In the bloody aftermath of the Wars of the Roses, Captain John Mallory leads a band of renegades across a war-torn landscape on a breathtaking quest in search of a dream - a dream of home. Dreaming premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre in March 1999 before moving to the West End. "Peter Barnes is one of the unrecognised geniuses of the English theatre" (Plays and Players)
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Publisher :
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 1993
Category : American drama
ISBN :
Author : Peter Barnes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1472537114
An RSC commission to commemorate the first celebration of Shakespeare's life and works A mischievous satire on the foundation of the Shakespeare industry: In 1769, when David Garrick staged the first theatre festival to celebrate the life of Stratford's most famous son, little did he realise the impact it would have on the future livelihood of the small Warwickshire market town. Peter Barnes' ironic and irreverent new comedy dissects the cult of the theatrical personality, with guest appearances from the Bard himself, Ben Jonson, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson, Sir Peter Hall and Peter Barnes."Peter Barnes is one of the unrecognised geniuses of the English theatre" (Plays and Players)
Author : Christopher Riches
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1431 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 019251850X
Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.