The Curious Room by Angela Carter

The Curious Room by Angela Carter

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Summary

This collection of Carter's dramatic writing offers radio plays, an opera and pieces for stage and screen. It includes the screenplays for "The Magic Toyshop" and "The Company of Wolves"; a draft for an opera of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando"; and reworkings for radio of "Puss in Boots" and "Dracula".

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The Curious Room by Angela Carter

The Vintage Collected Edition of Angela Carter's works continues with THE CURIOUS ROOM, which contains her dramatic writings, including several previously unpublished plays and screenplays. THE CURIOUS ROOM includes a radio play about the demented Victorian painter and parricide Richard Dadd; reworkings of Puss in Boots and the Dracula story; a draft for an opera of Virginia Woolf's ORLANDO, as well as the film scripts of THE MAGIC TOYSHOP and THE COMPANY OF WOLVES. Revealing many of the enthusiasms and concerns which ignited Carter's fiction. THE CURIOUS ROOM is full of magnificent and startling new material, charged with the range and power of Carter's imagination and inventiveness.
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ISBN 13 9780099586210
ISBN 10 0099586215
Title The Curious Room
Author Angela Carter
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 1997-07-03
Number of pages 528
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.