Selected plays / Emma Donoghue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donoghue, Emma, 1969- author.

Series:

Modern playwrights.

Oberon modern playwrights

Standardized Title:

Plays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--20th century.

English drama.

English drama--21st century.

Lesbians--Drama.

Lesbians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Other Title:

Emma Donoghue : selected plays

Place of Publication:

London : Oberon Books, 2015.

Summary:

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

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Kissing the Witch""; ""Trespasses""; ""I Know My Own Heart""; ""Ladies and Gentlemen""; ""Don�t Die Wondering""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxi-xxii).

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

Donoghue, Emma, 1969- Kissing the witch.

Donoghue, Emma, 1969- Trespasses.

Donoghue, Emma, 1969- I know my own heart.

Donoghue, Emma, 1969- Ladies and gentlemen.

Donoghue, Emma, 1969- Don't die wondering.

ISBN:

1-78319-711-0

OCLC:

910447605