- Paperback: 232 pages
- Publisher: University Of Iowa Press; 1 edition (Mar 1 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0877452881
- ISBN-13: 978-0877452881
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 14 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
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Parker's 1949 play never made it to Broadway. This excellent edition, with a thorough and graceful preface, is its first publication. The play is about a favorite subject from the 1940s, the story of Charles and Mary Lamb, which is one of insanity, alcoholism, murder, and loyalty. Using Evans's research, Parker created a play incorporating much actual material from the Lambs and their circle (Coleridge, Hazlitt, DeQuincy). The resulting work is powerful and literate. It is not, however, a masterpiece. It is too long; the performing version was one-third shorter. Its dramaturgy is based on Ibsen, which makes it outdated for its time. But Parker, using her own life's struggles, infuses the play with feeling.
- Thomas E. Luddy, Salem State Coll., Mass.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Thomas E. Luddy, Salem State Coll., Mass.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Superb, May 1 2009
By Jennifer Van Bergen "JVB" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Coast of Illyria: A Play in Three Acts (Paperback)
This is a superb rendition of descent into madness. A frightening play. What makes it even more interesting to me is that it is about literary siblings Mary and Charles Lamb, whose "Tales of Shakespeare" is still in print, over a hundred years after publication. An additional bonus is that the Lambs were friends of Aaron Burr, about whom I've done numerous reviews.
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