Marbles - A Play in Three Acts (Paperback, 1st ed)

A Platonic dialogue in the form of a double anachronism--the action takes place two centuries after our era--Joseph Brodsky’s only play, Marbles, is set in a prison cell that alone provides for the three unities of classic drama: those of time, place, and action. A nightmare rather than a utopia, this play proceeds according to the immanent logic of mental aggravation as its two characters, the inmates Publius and Tullius, examine the tautology of their psychological, historical, and purely physical confines. The fusion of its dour, somewhat terrifying vision with the macabre hilarity of its verbal texture allows Marbles to take its audience beyond the farthest reaches of the theatre of the absurd, into territory more suitable for modernist imagination than for human experience.

General

Imprint:	Farrar Straus Giroux
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2007
First published:	1990
Authors:	Joseph Brodsky
Translators:	Alan Myers
Dimensions:	217 x 142 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	96
Edition:	1st ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-374-52116-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
LSN:	0-374-52116-6
Barcode:	9780374521165

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