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Saint Joan by Bernard Shaw; Jean Chothia (Editor)
$24.00 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: New Mermaids Ser.
'What other judgment can I judge by but my own?' Charting the meteoric rise and fall of Joan of Arc and her mission to drive the English from France, Shaw's Saint Joan draws directly on the medieval records to cut through the sentiment that characterized previous literary treatments of her story. A ...Show more
The Country Wife by William Wycherley
$17.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: New Mermaids
'Cuckolds like lovers should themselves deceive' So concludes one of Wycherley's most revived and much discussed plays. It is a satirical comedy sharply focussed on the follies, vices and hypocrisies of Restoration London through its central characters: the desperate Pinchwife; his naive wife; the sex- ...Show more
'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford
$17.95 AUD
Category: Plays | Series: New Mermaids
Like Shakespeare's Juliet, Annabella, accompanied by her down-to-earth nurse, is introduced to a series of suitors to her hand. Like Juliet, she finds all of them unsatisfactory - and rightly so, for the audience know that the nastiest of them is having an affair with her domineering aunt. Like Juliet, ...Show more
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