Liz Lochhead

Blood and Ice (NHB Modern Plays) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Renowned poet and dramatist Liz Lochhead tells the story of Frankenstein's creation.

Summer 1816. A house party on the shores of Lake Geneva. Eighteen-year-old Mary and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, along with Mary's half-sister Claire and the infamous Lord Byron, take part in a challenge to see who can write the most horrifying story. Mary's contribution is to become one of the most celebrated Gothic novels of all time.

Using flashbacks and the rich poetic language for which she has become admired, Lochhead weaves a spider's web of connections between Mary's own tragic life and that of her literary monster.

As Lochhead writes in the Introduction to this revised version of the play, the myth created by Mary Shelley 'remains potent for our nuclear age, our age of astonishment and unease at the fruits of perhaps-beyond-the-boundaries genetic experimentation'.

'thrilling... a play full of raging debates about freedom, responsibility, hedonism and privilege, about the emptiness of life without ideals and the cruelty of a life entirely driven by them' - Scotsman

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nick Hern Books
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780013411
• Artikelnr.: 42005601

Autorenporträt

Liz Lochhead is a poet, playwright, performer and broadcaster. She was born in Motherwell in 1947, studied at Glasgow School of Art and now lives in Glasgow. She first attracted notice with her play "Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off", and susequently with "Perfect Days", "Misery Guts" and her adaptation of "Medea".