Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Car

by Peter Oswald

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0413715108
• ISBN13: 9780413715104
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 7.8"