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"item_title" : "Edgar Plays Two",
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"item_description" : "David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times. - The GuardianThis selection of David Edgar's dramatic work features three plays: Ecclesiastes, a late 1970s radio play; his acclaimed stage version of Nicholas Nickleby; and Entertaining Strangers, an English left-wing social drama.Ecclesiastes is a radio play that looks at the rise and fall of a fundamentalist Christian clergyman in the US. Nicholas Nickleby: With uncommon audacity Nicholas Nickleby not only takes on Dickens' sprawling novel, it fractures all the petty limitations we have imposed upon the stage as well ... A landmark. - New Statesman In Entertaining Strangers, a community constructs a nativity play: English left-wing social drama at its sturdiest and finest: human, argumentative, utterly unafraid of human realities, and seething with indignation and compassion. - The Sunday Times",
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Overview
"David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times." - The Guardian
This selection of David Edgar's dramatic work features three plays: Ecclesiastes, a late 1970s radio play; his acclaimed stage version of Nicholas Nickleby; and Entertaining Strangers, an English left-wing social drama.
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- ISBN-13: 9780413630506
- ISBN-10: 0413630501
- Publisher: Berg 3pl
- Publish Date: October 2006
- Dimensions: 8.06 x 5.04 x 1.32 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.26 pounds
- Page Count: 524
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