Ecclesiastes : a radio play ; The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (part one and two) ; Entertaining strangers
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Ecclesiastes : a radio play ; The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (part one and two) ; Entertaining strangers
（Methuen contemporary dramatists, Plays ; 2）
Methuen Drama, 1997
- : pbk
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This collection first published in Great Britain 1990 by Methuen Drama. Reissued with a new cover design 1994; reissued in this series in 1997.--t.p. verso.
The second work "from the novel by Charles Dickens"
The third work "a new version of 'Entertaining strangers: a play for Dorchester'"
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Description
"David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times" (Guardian) Nicholas Nickleby: "With uncommon audacity Nicholas Nickleby not only takes on Dickens' sprawling novel, it fractures all the petty limitations we have imposed upon the stage as well...A landmark" (New Statesman); In Entertaining Strangers, a community constructs a nativity play: "English left-wing social drama at its sturdiest and finest: human, argumentative, utterly unafraid of human realities, and seething with indignation and compassion" (Sunday Times) and Ecclesiastes, a radio play that looks at the rise and fall of a "fundamentalist" Christian clergyman in the US.
Table of Contents
- Ecclesiastes
- Nicholas Nickleby (Parts I and II)
- Entertaining Strangers
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