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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Christopher Hampton

Faber and Faber, 1987

shiny blue-green,gold&white hardcover/dj,a Play from the Novel by Choderlos de Laclos,reprint 1987,Faber and Faber Ltd.Publ,photos,143pages

Les Liaisons Dangereuses a Play

51 reviews
christopher hampton

Samuel French, Inc, 1986

A wicked tale
I think it was Kierkegaard who advised to be aware of entangling alliances. The web of sin in this book is masterfully woven as letters to frame-up an epistolary novel in which each character's letters speak volumes about the characters themselves. The novel was written in the same period as Rousseau in the Napoleonic era, when the novel as a genre was relatively young. Valmont is the penultimate ...

Tales from Hollywood
Christopher Hampton

Faber & Faber, 2002

Christopher Hampton's wry, poignant drama depicts the consequences of old literary Europe's attempt to integrate into fast-paced commercial Hollywood in the early years of World War II. With Austro-Hungarian playwright Odon Von Horvath resurrected as our guide, Tales from Hollywood leads us through a bizarre landscape where Schoenberg and the Marx Brothers play tennis, Brecht tries to write film treatments the studios will clamor over, and ...

Ghosts: A Family Drama in Three Acts

7 reviews
Henrik Ibsen, Christopher Hampton

Samuel French Inc Plays, 1983

Seemingly simple, but complex study
I chose this book to read and analyse a couple of years ago. It seemed to have simple meaning, but the more I tried to analyse, the more outstanding I found the book, and far from simple. Helen Alving is a widow and is keeping a secret. One day she tells her friend Manders and he's quite shocked. It all has to do with some money from her dead husband that she doesn't want her son to have. Oswald, ...

Yasmina Reza: Plays 1: Art, Life x 3, The Unexpected Man, Conversations After a Burial (Contemporary Classics ...
Yasmina Reza

Faber & Faber, 2005

Now in one volume, the works of "the most successful international playwright of her generation" (Vogue). Yasmina Reza's plays reflect the razor sharp wit, social commentary, and impeccable comedic timing that have earned the praise of critics throughout the world, none more so than the Tony Award-winning Art , an eccentric and clever play of ideas that took the American theater community by storm. In this sly critique of contemporary ...

Les Liaisons Dangereuses - A Play
Christopher Hampton

Samuel French, Inc, 1986

Acting Edition

Art

14 reviews
Yasmina Reza

Dramatists Play Service, 1999

An intelligent, witty, thought provoking play!
This is an exciting play about friendship and art that moves along at an animated pace from start to finish. As I started reading the play, I had an immediate positive reaction to it, and was swept along by its delightful dialogue. While the play does deal with the question of "What is art?" it does so in a humorous (not pedantic) way through the characters' relationships with one another. The ...

Atonement: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Scripts)
Christopher Hampton

Newmarket, 2008

The official screenplay book tie-in to the adaptation by screenwriter Christopher Hampton (Academy Award® winner for Dangerous Liaisons ) of Ian McEwan's bestselling novel, starring James McAvoy (BAFTA Award nominee for The Last King of Scotland ) opposite Academy Award®-nominated Keira Knightley, directed by Joe Wright ( Pride and Prejudice ), from Focus Features. Filmed on location in the U.K., the story of Atonement spans several decades. ...