Venus in Fur: A Play

by David Ives

Book Overview

A young playwright, Thomas, has written an adaptation of the 1870 novel Venus in Fur by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (after whom the term "masochism" was coined); the novel is the story of an obsessive adulterous relationship between a man and the mistress to whom he becomes enslaved. At the end of a long day in which the actresses Thomas auditions fail to impress him, in walks Vanda, very late and seemingly clueless, but she convinces him...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810128225
• ISBN13: 9780810128224
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.8"