Sixes and Sevens [hardcover] Myers, Robert Manson

Sixes and Sevens

MYERS, Robert Manson

Jostens Books

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

Robert Manson Myers

From The Spoils of Poynton, Henry James's riveting novel of courtship and marriage in Edwardian England, award-winning playwright Robert Manson Myers has fashioned a taut drama unfolding sharp tensions between a domineering mother and a vacillating son as inheritance of a magnificent country house thwarts a delicate courtship, precipitates a disastrous marriage, and propels events to a denouement at once devastating and bitterly ironic.The action takes place in the drawing room of Ricks, a country house in Poynton Park, Essex, England, toward the end of the nineteenth century.

Poynton Park: A Play in Three Acts

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Sixes and Sevens

The Bostonians: A Play in Two Acts

Poynton Park: A Play in Three Acts