Mameena and Other Plays: The Complete Dramatic Works of H. Rider Haggard - Couverture rigide

Haggard, H. Rider

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1869140990 ISBN 13 : 9781869140991

Editeur : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007

Synopsis

H. Rider Haggard, best known as the author of King Solomon's Mines, She and Allan Quatermain, also wrote three full-length plays. Mameena, based on Haggard's novel Child of Storm, is set in Zululand during the 1850s and deals with the struggle for the succession to the Zulu throne. Mameena was staged in 1914 by actor-manager Oscar Asche, who employed the Zulu expert James Stuart as technical adviser on the production. Star of Egypt was adapted from Haggard's Ancient Egyptian romance Morning Star, while the historical melodrama To Hell or Connaught, set against the backdrop of the Cromwellian colonisation of Ireland, was written expressly for the stage. All three plays are published here for the first time, together with previously unrecorded information on how they came to be written and, in the case of Mameena, performed.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1869140990
• ISBN 13: 9781869140991
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Éditeur: Coan Stephen, Tella Alfred
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible