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The two plays in this collection ring fascinating new changes on the well-worn contrast between a writer's life and work. The biographical play "The Pimp" is an elegant dance of death for four characters: the poet Charles Baudelaire, his mixed-race mistress Jeanne Duval, his respectable but repressed mother and his hypocritical legal adviser. Each of them has a part to play in the poetry as well as the tragedy of Baudelaire's life. In the brilliant, often surreal "Solitude," the blocked writer Trecci (a character loosely based on the novelist Alexander Trocchi) wishes to be left alone on his barge, only stepping out for a riotous visit to the pub and an occasional sexual encounter with his neighbour's one-legged wife. But when his only friend brings round a potential conquest - an attractive young man who turns out to be an attractive young woman - Trecci is unwillingly drawn back into the world outside.

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

• Full title: Two Immorality Plays
• Subtitle: The Pimp; Solitude
• Author: Dic Edwards
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• EAN: 9781840028133
• ISBN: 1840028130
• ID: 04847947
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 180 g
• Dimensions: 212 × 131 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. May 2008

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