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Tom Stoppard: Plays 4: Dalliance, Undiscovered Country, Rough Crossing, On the Razzle, The Seagull (Faber Contemporary Classics)
DallianceUndiscovered CountryRough CrossingOn the RazzleThe SeagullThis fourth volume of Tom Stoppard's work for the stage brings together five of his most celebrated translations and adaptations of plays by Arthur Schnitzler ( Dalliance and Undiscovered Country), Ferenc Molnar ( Rough Crossing, a classic farce set aboard an ocean liner), Johann Nestroy ( On the Razzle, a mad chase through Vienna), and Anton Chekhov ( The Seagull, the classic Russian country tale). According to The Times of London, "Adaptation in Stoppard's terms means finding a sympathetic text and using it as a springboard for invention that leaves the original far behind." In adapting these plays--some classics, some nearly forgotten--for the modern stage, Tom Stoppard has added his own unique elements of dazzling wit and verbal brilliance, hilarious parody and cutting satire, to create works that stand as exceptional works of theater that do not belong to any one age. .
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Dalliance
Mary Turner has little use for sacrifice As the niece of Erastus Corning, the prominent railway magnate, she is accustomed to financial security, society balls, and the flirtatious attention of her many suitors. When she marries the ambitious, though dull, banker Isaac Burch, she secures an upper-class social position at the cost of a loveless relationship. Refusing to settle, Mary soon finds diversion and companionship in a "dalliance"--perhaps adulterous--with Chicago lawyer David Stuart. Her alleged indiscretions result in a very public divorce trial, pitting the domineering husband against the repentant and disgraced wife. Based on the actual Illinois divorce trial of 1860 that riveted the country with newspaper headlines displaying the personal lives of prominent citizens, Burg's novel probes human motivations and failings along with a social climate percolating with the demands for civil and social rights of women. Narrated through Mary's diary entries, Isaac's letters, and the journal of newspaper reporter Thomas Perry, Dalliance transports the reader with exquisitely researched detail into the material culture of America's mid-nineteenth-century upper-crust society. Richly drawn characters and Burg's eloquent style combine to make this an engrossing and emotionally powerful novel readers will not soon forget..
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