| Restoration: A Pastoral Contributor(s): Bond, Edward (Author) |
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ISBN: 0413760308 ISBN-13: 9780413760302 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama |
| Dewey: 822.914 |
| Series: Methuen Drama Modern Plays |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.1" W x 7.82" (0.30 lbs) 170 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Restoration is set in eighteenth-century England: a world of cruelty, injustice and iron privilege. Lord Are is forced by poverty into an unwanted marriage with the daughter of a wealthy mineowner. One morning, during breakfast, he commits a bizarre and fatal crime. He seeks to pin responsibility for it on his guileless, illiterate footman, Bob Hedges. A battle ensues between Bob's black, justice-hungry wife and the fortified privilege of the ruling classes.Bond's great gift as a comic moralist makes Lord Are condemn himself without sacrificing a scintilla of wit. Bond takes the Restoration style, enters it and turns it against itself Robert Cushman, Observer |