The Curious Room - Softcover

Carter, Angela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099586215 ISBN 13: 9780099586210

Publisher: Vintage, 1997

Synopsis

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Carter's works continues with THE CURIOUS ROOM, which contains her dramatic writings, including several previously unpublished plays and screenplays.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.

About this title

Synopsis:

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".

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0099586215
• ISBN 13: 9780099586210
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528