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Author
Publisher
A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1969.
Language
English
Description
One day George Arthur Rose, hack writer and minor priest, discovers that he has been picked to be Pope. He is hardly surprised and not in the least daunted. "The previous English pontiff was Hadrian the Fourth," he declares. "The present English pontiff is Hadrian the Seventh. It pleases Us; and so, by Our own impulse, We command." Hadrian is conceived in the image of his creator, Fr. Rolfe, whose aristocratic pretensions (he called himself Baron...
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
""[Suzan-Lori Parks'] dislocating stage devices, stark but poetic language and fiercely idiosyncratic images transform her work into something haunting and marvelous."--Time "An original whose fierce intelligence and fearless approach to craft subvert theatrical convention and produce a mature and inimitable art that is as exciting as it is fresh."-August Wilson Named one of the "100 Innovators for the Next New Wave" by Time magazine, Suzan-Lori Parks...
6) "I take your hand in mine--": a play suggested by the love letters of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper
Author
Publisher
Smith and Kraus
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
S. French
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
The legendary Claudette Colbert starred on Broadway in this suspense drama about an internationally successful mystery novelist whose relatives wouldn't mind killing her to get their hands on her art collection. Other characters include a live in doctor who was once the novelist's lover and a savvy Indian butler who uses words like "chutzpa." The badinage between the novelist and the butler and between the novelist and the doctor provides comic delight...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
This collection of seven plays by David Henry Hwang bears eloquent witness to the scope and richness of Chinese-American literature. Capturing the spirit, the struggles and the secret language of the Chinese-American, Hwang magnificently blends the delicate nuances of fantasy, poetry and mythology in works of almost hallucinatory power...Jacket.
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