Tony Harrison Plays 3
Poetry or Bust; The Kaisers of Carnuntum; The Labourers of Herakles
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Faber & Faber
Published:10th Jun '96
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Tony Harrison Plays 3 includes Poetry or Bust, The Kaisers of Carnuntum and The Labourers of Herakles.
The Kaisers of Carnuntum was performed on 2 June 1995 in the Roman amphitheatre of Petronell/Carnuntum in Austria and has the bloody Commodus, a Roman Emperor and son of the philosopher Marcus Aureliues, returning to the former Roman frontier town.This third collection of Tony Harrison's theatre work contains three plays, all of which were written to be performed in specific places in the world. Poetry or Bust, performed in September 1993, is about the Airedale poet John Nicholson (1790-1843) and was devised for the former wool-combing shed at Salts Mill, Saltaire, not a hundred yards from where Saltaire drowned. The Kaisers of Carnuntum was performed on 2 June 1995 in the Roman amphitheatre of Petronell/Carnuntum in Austria and has the bloody Commodus, a Roman Emperor and son of the philosopher Marcus Aureliues, returning to the former Roman frontier town.
ISBN: 9780571179664
Dimensions: 198mm x 126mm x 13mm
Weight: 240g
160 pages
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