Mary Barton (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854599518 ISBN 13: 9781854599513

Verlag: Nick Hern Books, 2006

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"'An exceptionally gripping and deeply moving play... This is psychological drama at its best' Daily Telegraph on Iron"

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Set in Manchester between 1837-42, Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel paints a powerful and moving picture of working-class life in Victorian England. It concerns Mary Barton, a millworker's daughter, anxious to rise through the ranks, and her father, who commits murder to thwart her ambition - an episode based on the actual murder in 1831 of a progressive millowner. Like its companion novel, "North and South", "Mary Barton" offers a stirring narrative with real insight into the lives of the Victorian working classes: it was published the same year, 1848, as the "Communist Manifesto". Rona Munro, already well-known for a strand of gritty realism in plays such as "Iron", set in a women's prison, has been commissioned by the prestigious Manchester Royal Exchange to adapt "Mary Barton" for their impressive theatre-in-the-round. It opens in September 2006.

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• Verlag: Nick Hern Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1854599518
• ISBN 13: 9781854599513
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112