Golden Ass or the Curious Man - Couverture souple

Oswald, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 184002285X ISBN 13 : 9781840022858

Editeur : Oberon Modern Plays, 2003

Synopsis

A comedy written for the Shakespeare's Globe, telling the story of an insatiably curious young man who, wishing to turn himself into a wise owl, takes the wrong drug and finds himself transformed into an ass. His subsequent travels lead him to encounter the chaos of human desire from the perspective of a servile donkey. The most exquisite tale in this wonderful epic, as originally told by Lucius Apuleius, is the first known account of the marriage of Cupid and Psyche, which is perhaps the archetypal myth behind modern psychology.

Inspired by The Golden Ass, Peter Oswald has written a riotous erotic comedy of love and desire, which premiered at the Globe Theatre, London in August 2002. This version is true to the original: in the words of C S Lewis is 'a strange compound of picaresque novel, horror comic, mystagogue's tract, pornography and stylistic experiment.'

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Peter Oswald was born in England in 1965. His original plays include the verse plays Allbright and Valadonama, and Fair Ladies At A Game Of Poem Cards, Augustine’s Oak, Ramayana, and Sha Kuntala. He has also adapted plays by Sophocles and Lorca.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oberon Modern Plays
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 184002285X
• ISBN 13: 9781840022858
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 72
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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