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Autore |
Donoghue Emma <1969-> |
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Titolo |
Selected plays / / Emma Donoghue |
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London : , : Oberon Books, , 2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oberon modern playwrights |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English drama - 20th century |
English drama - 21st century |
Lesbians |
English drama |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages xxi-xxii). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Kissing the Witch""; ""Trespasses""; ""I Know My Own Heart""; ""Ladies and Gentlemen""; ""Don�t Die Wondering"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Kissing the Witch Adapted from her book of thirteen revisionist fairy tales of the same name, this play interweaves four classic plots - Beauty and the Beast, Donkeyskin, the Goose Girl, the Little Mermaid - with an invented one about a desperate girl going to a witch for help. Kissing the Witch finds the gritty in the fantastical, and excavates magic to find what's really going on. Trespasses Set over three days in 1661, Trespasses is inspired by the judge's own account of one of the tiny handful of witch trials that ever took place in Ireland. It asks why a servant girl who fell into fit |
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