Love's Fire: Seven New Plays Inspired by Seven Shakespearean Sonnets

Bys: Bogosian, Eric, Finn, William, Norman, Marsha

Book Overview

The greatest love poetry in the English language provides the springboard for master playwrights' never-before-published works about the triumphs and tragedies of the heart. The sonnets and plays in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688161723
• ISBN13: 9780688161729
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: PerfectBound
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Superb

This book contains some magnificent meditations on the nature of love. If nothing else, I suggest you buy it for "The General of Hot Desire," an interesting take on the nature of God's interaction with humanity throughout history.

Superbly Performable Language Driven Text

Love's Fire embodies our perception of language. The spoken and unspoken voices of God, Love, Nature, and Humanity become the essential elements in this collection of one acts. Riveting and powerful, Love's Fire demands to be performed. Not only is the language spoken by the actors and heard by the audience, but the language of our contemporary masters blends with the master of language himself, William Shakespeare. As Love's Fire reinvigorates our grasp of language we come to an understanding that poems, sonnets, books, plays, spiritual songs, or body movements fuel the fire of love. An excellent piece of work by 7 masters who dedicated the collection to the Bard.

Brilliant idea...beautifully realized

Shakespeare's inspired words talk to today's audience through the intriguing interpretations of master American playrights. Especially fascinating is John Guare's "The General of Hot Desire". These original works defy description...so read them...or better yet...perform them...and appreciate these unique literary gems in all their splendor.

Better in person...but good none-the-less

I saw this play in person, and just finished the book. Nothing better than great poetry made for our time. Highly recomend for those who who've seen it, or heard a review. Some of the plays are musical so they don't translate well to paper. One drawback.