Fair Ladies At A Game Of Poem Car
by Peter Oswald

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A play by one of Britain's foremost verse playwrights Two pairs of lovers are threatened with death by the jealousy of a cunning and powerful lord.

But love is not easily crushed, and its ultimate triumph transforms the whole of society.

Taking the storyline of an eighteenth century puppet play by the great Japanese playwright, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Peter Oswald has written a new play in iambic pentameters for living actors."An elaborate, philosophically nuanced and often funny tale of love" (Independent)

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Publisher Methuen
Year 1995
Binding Paperback
Pages 96
Language English
ISBN-13 9780413715104
ISBN-10 0413715108

Fair Ladies At A Game Of Poem Car is a British play written by Peter Oswald and published by Methuen (1995).

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