One Flea Spare
by Naomi Wallace
Synopsis
By turns hilarious and deeply moving, ONE FLEA SPARE is set in plague-ravaged 17th-century London where social roles and the boundaries that describe them have been thrust into chaos.
The definition of morality is up for grabs.
History is being tantalized.
And whilst the wealthy William Snelgrave dreams of sweating, swearing tars, and of how sailors satisfy their "baser instincts" so far away from female company, his own wife, untouched for 40 years, is discovering that her dreadfully burned body may not be numb after all.
The human heart craves comfort, contact, tenderness.
Survival may take many forms.
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One Flea Spare is a play written by Naomi Wallace and published by Samuel French (1997).
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Samuel French · 1997 · 72 pp
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