London 1951 first edition Oxford. Hardcover. Small octavo, 51pp., cloth. VG, some soiling, minor wear, no DJ.

A SLEEP Of PRISONERS.

Fry, Christopher

Oxford University Press

Dust jacket art by Edgar Blakeney. A comedy that completes his season quartet of plays set in Siena the night before a medieval horse race that is run around the middle of this city.

A yard of sun;: A summer comedy

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Presents a contemporary translation in rhyming couplets of Rostand's classic romantic drama portraying the swordsman and poet

Cyrano De Bergerac: A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts (English and French Edition)

ROSTAND, EDMOND

Oxford Univ. Pr.

Illustrated with photographs. A family history by playwright Christopher Fry. Family trees at the back. 267+p. Christopher Fry (1907-2005) was an English poet and playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably The Lady's Not for Burning, which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s.

Can You Find Me: A Family History

Plays (Oxford Paperbacks)

This book brings together for the first time in one volume five of Christopher Fry's most popular plays: The Boy With A Cart, A Phoenix Too Frequent, The Lady's Not For Burning, A Sleep of Prisoners, and Curtmantle. Displaying all the variety and richness that characterize verse drama at its best, the plays appear here in the order in which they were first performed.

Selected Plays (Oxford Paperbacks)

Ibsen's last work to use poetry as a medium of dramatic expression, Peer Gynt carries the marks of his later, prose plays. Its literary antecedents include Faust and Hans Christian Andersen, but the play draws on Ibsen's own childhood and character. He wrote that he derived many features of Peer Gynt from "self-dissection," creating a self-centered and irresponsible, but ultimately forgiveable, rogue.

Peer Gynt: A Dramatic Poem (The ^AWorld's Classics)

IBSEN, HENRIK

Fillinger, Johann

Based on the life of a little known writer, Rostand's hero has become a figure of theatrical legend: Cyrano, with the nose of a clown and the soul of a poet, is by turns comic and sad, as reckless in love as in war, and never at a loss for words. The text is accompanied by Notes and a full Introduction which sets the play in its literary and historical context. Christopher Fry's acclaimed translation into "chiming couplets" represents the homage of one verse dramatist to another.

Cyrano de Bergerac: A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts (The ^AWorld's Classics)

`Tonight When I make my sweeping bow at heaven's gate, One thing I shall still possess, at any rate, Unscathed, something outlasting mortal flesh, And that is ... My panache.' The first English translation of Cyrano de Bergerac, in 1898, introduced the word panache into the English language. This single word summed up Rostand's rejection of the social realism which dominated late nineteenth-century theatre. He wrote his `heroic comedy', unfashionably, in verse, and set it in the reign of Louis XIII and the Three Musketeers. Based on the life of a little known writer, Rostand's hero has become a figure of theatrical legend: Cyrano, with the nose of a clown and the soul of a poet, is by turns comic and sad, as reckless in love as in war, and never at a loss for words. Audiences immediately took him to their hearts, and since the triumphant opening night in December 1897 - at the height of the Dreyfus Affair - the play has never lost its appeal. The text is accompanied by notes and a full introduction which sets the play in its literary and historical context. Christopher Fry's acclaimed translation into `chiming couplets' represents the homage of one verse dramatist to another.

Cyrano de Bergerac: A Heroic Comedy in Five Acts (Oxford World's Classics)

This translation is based upon the Norwegian text in the Centenary Edition of Ibsen's collected works. It provides a close account of the quality of Ibsen's play by reproducing as nearly as possible not only the meaning in the literal sense but the verse forms that constitute so much of the substance and dramatic structure of the original. It makes an important contribution to those studying Peer Gynt in English, as until now little of the dramatic quality of the play has found its way into English translations.

Peer Gynt : A Dramatic Poem (Oxford World's Classics)

Fillinger, Johan

McFARLANE, JAMES

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