A Fable

Title

en_US A Fable

Description

en_US Jean-Claude van Itallie

Creator

en_US Van Itallie, Jean Claude See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T15:37:44Z

en_US 2014-04

en_US 2004

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:37:44Z

Date Issued

en_US 2004

Abstract

en_US First copyrighted in 1976, this play's copyright was renewed in 2004. This booklet is a 42-page text. The back cover describes the piece this way: The action begins, once upon a time, in the village of People Who Fish in the Lake, where everyone longs nostalgically for the Golden Time, when happiness and harmony reigned supreme. In quest of what has been lost, the haughty king sends a traveler off in pursuit of the beast that is stifling the kingdom- a search filled with uncertainty and lurking terrors. As she progresses in.her journey, the traveler is beset on every side, and her task grows more complex: How will she find the beast? How will she recognize him? How will she kill him? Scenes of high humor alternate with those of dark menace as she presses on, building inexorably into a brilliant and evocative mosaic which, in the end, distills and expresses the very elements of the life force itself. I have not had the opportunity to try it for myself.

Identifier

en_US 9780685671689

en_US 10076 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76066

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Dramatists Play Service Inc

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PS3572.A45 F3 2004 See all items with this value

en_US Jean-Claude van Itallie See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole