 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
THE TOWER / RUY BLAS
|
| By: |
Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Charles Wood (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
|
£16.99 |
|
We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for
further information.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
1840025336 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781840025330 |
| Publisher: |
OBERON BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2005 |
| Pages: |
280 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
Features two stories written in the 1830s: "The Tower" - a riotously inaccurate retelling of a notorious royal scandal from fourteenth-century France; and "Ruy Blas" - named after its low-born hero, forced to masquerade as an aristocrat as part of his disgraced master's revenge against the Queen. |
| Synopsis: |
"The Tower and Ruy Blas, written in the 1830s by two of the most eminent French writers of their time, provide us with a fascinating insight into early Romantic drama which swept the classical verities of Racine, Marivaux and Beaumarchais from the stage and replaced them with a melange of melodrama, German Sturm und Drang and Shakespearean complexity. In the fashion of the time, both plays are set in the past. The Tower is a riotously inaccurate retelling of a notorious royal scandal from fourteenth-century France. The text, full of unexpected developments and shocking revelations, has a twisted history of its own: written by the little-known Frederick Gaillardet, it was taken on and 'improved' by Alexandre Dumas pere at a late stage, as much to add his famous name to the credits as his literary expertise to the play. Set in seventeenth-century Spain, Victor Hugo's Ruy Blas is named after its low-born hero, forced to masquerade as an aristocrat as part of his disgraced master's revenge against the Queen. Noble in heart, Ruy Blas soon proves a champion of the poor and all but wins what he most wants in the world: the Queen herself.Hugo's most admired and, in France, most frequently staged play, it has never been performed in its original form in English." |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oberon Modern Plays |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
Little Worried Caterpillar (PB)
Little Green knows she''s about to make a big change - transformingfrom a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. Everyone is VERYexcited! But Little Green is VERY worried. What if being a butterflyisn''t as brilliant as everyone says?Join Little Green as she finds her own path ... with just a littlehelp from her friends.
|
|
All the Things We Carry PB
What can you carry?A pebble? A teddy? A bright red balloon? A painting you''ve made?A hope or a dream?This gorgeous, reassuring picture book celebrates all the preciousthings we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope. With comforting rhymes and fabulous illustrations, this is a warmhug of a picture book.
|
|
|
|