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Maugham Plays: One: Sheppey, the Sacred Flame, the Circle, the Constant Wife, and Our Betters
Maugham's unerring hold over audiences and readers is amply demonstrated by the five plays in this selection.
"Sheppey," his last and one of his very best, is the comedy of a Cockney barber who wins a sweepstake.
"The Sacred Flame" gives an unusual note of noir-ish suspense to a moving drama of protective maternal love.
"The Circle," widely
...morePaperback, 469 pages
Published
September 1st 2003
by A&C Black
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Critics & theatre historians call "The Circle" one of the
great high comedies ever writ (1919). It puts Maugham in line
w Congreve and Sheridan (it also influenced Noel Coward).
As critic Louis Kronenberger wrote: the characters aren't
people who sacrifice romance to position, but those who give
up position for romance. His people do not give in "to the
way of the world," they defy it. But watch out: love is
seldom a match for ostracism or ...more
great high comedies ever writ (1919). It puts Maugham in line
w Congreve and Sheridan (it also influenced Noel Coward).
As critic Louis Kronenberger wrote: the characters aren't
people who sacrifice romance to position, but those who give
up position for romance. His people do not give in "to the
way of the world," they defy it. But watch out: love is
seldom a match for ostracism or ...more
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W. Somerset Maugham
Plays: One
Methuen, Paperback, 1997.
xxx, 468 pp.
Chronology [vii - xii:]
Introduction by Anthony Curtis [xiii - xxx:]
Sheppey
The Sacred Flame
The Circle
The Constant Wife
Our Betters
This selection first published by Mandarin Paperbacks in 1991 as Selected Plays.
Reissued in this series with a new Introduction in 1997 by Methuen Publishing.
Plays first published in Great Britain by Heinemann in:
19...more
Plays: One
Methuen, Paperback, 1997.
xxx, 468 pp.
Chronology [vii - xii:]
Introduction by Anthony Curtis [xiii - xxx:]
Sheppey
The Sacred Flame
The Circle
The Constant Wife
Our Betters
This selection first published by Mandarin Paperbacks in 1991 as Selected Plays.
Reissued in this series with a new Introduction in 1997 by Methuen Publishing.
Plays first published in Great Britain by Heinemann in:
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