<p>A parody of literary criticism offers a humorous history of British poetry and fiction</p>

From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf

Literature & Fiction

Robert Manson Myers

Humor & Satire

University of Illinois Press

A parody of literary criticism offers a humorous history of British poetry and fiction

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

From Henry James's brilliant evocation of the social scene in nineteenth-century Boston, award-winning playwright Robert Manson Myers has fashioned a trenchant satire sure to prove controversial as it debates the rule of women in "the city of reform" and challenges accepted views of love, courtship and marriage.By ironic good fortune, Henry James, bitterly disappointed at the disastrous failure of his own plays, created superlative novels readily adapted by others to the scenic stage. Now readers and playgoers who remember The Heiress (1948), The Innocents (1950), The Aspern Papers (1958), and The Wings of the Dove (1963) will delight in The Bostonians, drawn from one of the few James novels exclusively American in setting and theme."I  wished to write a very American tale," James wrote in his Notebooks - " a tale very characteristic of our social conditions; and I asked myself what was the most salient and peculiar point in our social life. The answer was: the situation of  women, the decline of the sentiment of sex, the agitation on their behalf." from the inside jacket flap

The Bostonians: A Play in Two Acts

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From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf

From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf

The Bostonians: A Play in Two Acts