The Clink
by Stephen Jeffreys

The Clink Book Cover
The Clink Cover

Highlights

British

Synopsis

A riotously funny satirical farce in the tradition of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare in Love, from the author of The Libertine.

Elizabeth I is tottering at death's door.

Conspirators are everywhere.

Lucius Bodkin, an Elizabethan stand-up comedian, becomes unwillingly involved in the political skullduggery and jiggery-pokery surrounding the ailing queen.

The Clink could pass itself off as a long-lost Elizabethan comedy.

In fact it is a brilliant political satire offering many sharp parallels with our own times, when art must be sponsored, but to be sponsored it must be 'safe'.

Stephen Jeffreys' play was first staged by Paines Plough in 1990 on tour in Britain and Holland.

Themes

Publication

Year Published
1999
ISBN 10
1854594443
ISBN 13
9781854594440
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Revised
Print Length
96 pages
Place Published
London
Language
English
LCC
PR6060.E476 C54 1990
DCC
822.914
eISBN 13
9781788500845
Print
The Clink is a British play written by and published by Nick Hern Books in London, 1999. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9781854594440 and an ISBN-10 of 1854594443.
Digital
ePlay digital editions are available on Amazon Kindle Apple Books with an ISBN-13 of 9781788500845.

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