Total Eclipse - Softcover

Hampton, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0573616922 ISBN 13: 9780573616921

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc., 2011

Synopsis

Christopher Hampton

Drama

Characters: 10 male, 5 female, plus extras

Various Sets

Revised version. Total Eclipse is an intelligent look at the relationship between Rimbaud and Verlaine and shows considerable insight into the bourgeois and artistic societies of the period as well as a moving understanding of homosexuality.

"The first six scenes develop the contrast between the two men...and their mutual need for each other as they move through and away from the literary life of the time and from Verlaine's wife and her family. A remarkable cafe dialogue with the two poets drunk and drugged subtly suggests the private, timeless world they built together and ends on a note of violence to show how fragile it was...A compelling evening in the theatre." - New Statesman

About this title

About the Author:

Christopher Hampton was born in the Azores in 1946. He wrote his first play, "When Did You Last See My Mother?, "at the age of eighteen. His many works for the theatre, television and cinema include "The Philanthropist, "translations of Yasmina Reza's "Art, Life x 3, "and "The Unexpected Man", his adaptation of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses "by Laclos, translations from Ibsen and Moliere, " "and the screenplays "Dangerous Liaisons, Carrington, "and "The Secret Agent."

About this edition

• Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0573616922
• ISBN 13: 9780573616921
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96