The rescue : a melodrama for broadcasting, based on Homer's Odyssey / by Edward Sackville-West ; orchestral score by Benjamin Britten ; with six illustrations to the text by Henry Moore.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Sackville-West, Edward, 1901-1965.

Contributor:

• Moore, Henry, 1898-1986, illustrator.
• Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976., composer.
• Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
• English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Radio plays--England--20th century.
• Radio plays.
• England.
• Homer. Odyssey--Adaptations.

Genre:

• Drama.

Physical Description:

96 pages, 6 leaves of plates : illustrations (part. color) ; 23 cm

Manufacture:

London and Edinburgh : Made and printed in Great Britain by Morrison and Gibb Ltd.

Place of Publication:

London : Secker and Warburg, [1945]

Notes:

• With a half-title.
• Without the music.
• "This Edition, printed on hand-made paper, is limited to 850 copies."
• "First published May 1945."
• "Performed by the British Broadcasting Corporation on November 25th (Part I) and 26th (Part II), 1943."
• Culture Class Collection copy is no. 271.
• Bound in light blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed.

Related Work:

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Rescue, composer.

OCLC:

2279576