Edward Albee's Marriage Play

Edward Albee's Marriage Play
Author: Edward Albee
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1995
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822214229

THE STORY: Jack comes home from a middling day at the office to quickly announce to his wife, Gillian, that he is leaving her. Suspecting for some time a midlife crisis, Gillian goads Jack about this announcement, forcing him to try it again--going

Three Marriage Plays

Three Marriage Plays
Author: Thomas Heywood
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1996
Genre: English drama
ISBN: 9780719022210

This text contains three plays on the subject of courtship and marriage by the Jacobean playwright Thomas Heywood, best known for his domestic drama A Woman Killed With Kindness. The varied relationships in these plays are explored against the vivid life of London's city and suburbs, the city and seashore of Marseilles, a friary and a country house.

Gogol Three Plays

Gogol Three Plays
Author: Nikolai Gogol
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2014-03-10
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1408148617

This collection contains Gogol's three completed plays The Government Inspector, which satirises a corrupt society was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language and is still widely studied in schools and universities: "I resolved to gather into one heap everything that was bad in Russia which I was aware of at that time, all the injustices being perpetrated in those places, and in those circumstances that especially cried out for justice, and tried to hold them all up to ridicule, at one fell swoop." (Nikolai Gogol) Marriage is a comedy about the business of matchmaking and matrimony; The Gamblers is an exoriating piece about the excesses of the Moscow aristocracy. "Two and two make five, if not the square root of five, and it all happens quite naturally in Gogol's world... Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange" (Vladimir Nabokov)