Curtmantle
de Fry, Christopher
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Very Good
- Librería
-
ELY, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Oxford University Press.. Very Good/Very Good. 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Black cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. x, 99 pages clean and tight. In Curtmantle, his first historical play, Christopher Fry covers almost all the years of Henry the Second's reign (1154-Ii8q), exploring his character, both as a ruler and a man, as well as the more often told story of his conflict with Thomas Becket. The central characters of Henry, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Thomas are deeply seen personalities moving at times easily, at times painfully, within the confines of their titles and responsibilities. The clashes and tensions between them sound and echo moral and social problems from which no period, nor man, is ever free. In the Foreword Mr. Fry says: `The play has two themes: one a progression towards a portrait of Henry, a search for his reality, moving through versions of "Where is the King?" to the unresolved close of "He was dead when they came to him". The other theme is Law, or rather the interplay of different laws: civil, canon, moral, aesthetic, and the laws of God; and how they belong and do not belong to each other.' .
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- Librería
- CHARLES BOSSOM
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 130498
- Título
- Curtmantle
- Autor
- Fry, Christopher
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hard Cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good/Very Good
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Oxford University Press.
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1961
- Palabras clave
- Fry, Christopher
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CHARLES BOSSOM
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ELY, Cambridgeshire
Sobre CHARLES BOSSOM
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
