Plays : Two
by Howard Brenton

Plays : Two Book Cover
Plays : Two Cover

Highlights

British

Synopsis

Howard Brenton is one of Britain's best-known and most controversial dramatists

The Romans in Britain was the play that brought calls to bring back censorship when it was first staged at the National in 1980.

It conjures up "an era that is culturally as well as historically remote which is a notoriously difficult task, but Mr Brenton acheives it with great skill and effect...a very good play indeed."

In The Thirteenth Night: "He sets the characters of Shakespeare to find the elements in the British character which could transform an Englishman into a Stalin, and closes in on his creation with an overall wit to match his horror" (The Times).

The Genius "is teeming with memorable stage pictures, and bristling with Brenton's very best writing: flinty, impassioned, explosive" (Financial Times).

In Bloody Poetry "Brenton is doing something markedly ambitious in this phantasmagoric play.

He is celebrating the idea of the committed artist who seeks to stir and provoke sullen, defeated bourgeois England.

At the same time, with clear-eyed honesty, he shows how difficult it is to upset the moral order" (The Guardian).

Greenland is "on the one hand a cry of disillusionment with established political forms, on the other it is full of typically lively Brentonesque satire and lampoons...Brenton's message is a welcome antidote to the madness in which we all now seem to be living and a sharp blast against patriarchy as well as other attendant woes" (City Limits).

Publication

Publisher
Methuen
Year Published
1989
ISBN 10
0413614905
ISBN 13
9780413614902
Binding
Paperback
Print Length
416 pages
Place Published
London
Language
English
LCCN
gb89059568
eISBN 13
9781408160992
Print
Plays : Two is a British play written by and published by Methuen in London, 1989. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780413614902 and an ISBN-10 of 0413614905.
Digital
ePlay digital editions are available on Apple Books Google Play with an ISBN-13 of 9781408160992.

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