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A selection of plays by "one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain" (The Times) The Spirit of Man is "an ingenious triple-bill exploring Man's need for faith through three short satires based in medieval France, Protectorate England and nineteenth-century Eastern Europe" (Independent); Nobody Here But Us Chickens is a linked trilogy of satires on New Age, corporate and bedroom politics. Red Noses is a political satire about the plague and takes place in 1348. Set in medieval Italy during a crisis in the Church, Sunsets and Glories is "a work of the highest and most thrilling theatrical energy" (Independent on Sunday), whilst Bye Bye Columbus is a "highly entertaining" (Guardian) television play."Peter Barnes is one of the unrecognised geniuses of the English theatre" (Plays and Players)

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Plays, playscripts

• Full title: Barnes Plays: 2
• Subtitle: Red Noses, The Spirit of Man, Nobody Here But Us Chickens, Sunsets and Glories, Bye Bye Columbus
• Author: Peter Barnes
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360
• EAN: 9780413680303
• ISBN: 0413680304
• ID: 04605972
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 406 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 129 × 47 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. November 1993

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