Red sun and Merlin unchained / David Rudkin ; with expository essays ed. by David Ian Rabey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudkin, David, 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama.

Rudkin, David, 1936-.

Rudkin, David.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Red sun

Merlin unchained

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Red Sun and Merlin Unchained are the most recent original stage works by one of the most acknowledged yet neglected dramatists of our time. Red Sun is a two-hander, tightly tethered within the classical unities of theme and space and the span of a single day. Merlin Unchained is an explosive, multitudinous epic, crossing continents and centuries and passing between worlds. Yet though technically so contrasting, both works speak with the same distinctive voice, offering an exhilarating and sometimes disturbing challenge to the cultural and political perceptions of a contemporary audience, and e

Contents:

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Red Sun: Dramatist's Foreword; RED SUN; Red Sun and the Promise of Myth; Merlin Unchained: Dramatist's Foreword; MERLIN UNCHAINED; 'Broken Magic?': A Director's Perspective on Merlin Unchained; 'Only a Bard': The Theatre of David Rudkin; About the Dramatist and Contributors; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-16272-5

9786613162724

1-84150-454-8

OCLC:

714572260