The Boy Who Would Be King: And Six More Plays - Softcover

Stee, Ethard Wendel Van

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1475972741 ISBN 13: 9781475972740

Publisher: iUniverse, 2013

Synopsis

This collection of seven plays will stir your love of story and language. A feast for the ears, it represents Mr. Van Stee’s best dramatic writing over thirteen years. The plays are well-suited to cinematic and stage production as well as to dramatic reading. Book club readers will enjoy taking the various parts and discussing the plays afterwards. Readers will be rewarded by the entertaining plots and the richness of the dialogue.

Mr. Van Stee is the author of eleven previous books including fiction, drama, biography, and literary criticism. He was the director of the Beaufort Writers organization for fifteen years. Between books he is a portrait painter. He lives in Beaufort, South Carolina.

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About the Author

Ethard Wendel Van Stee began studying creative writing thirty years ago. He has served on the editorial boards of several learned journals and has had many years of experience on the podium in university lecture halls. He shifted focus three decades ago from science to biographical writing and fiction. He has taught creative writing in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Beaufort, South Carolina. He was the director of the Beaufort Writers organization from 1996 to 2012.

Mr. Van Stee’s books include I Didn’t Come From Nowhere, the life of Marie Johnson, daughter of a slave; Moira’s Scythe, a family saga; The Remarkable Life of Frances Emily Steele, a novel; A Woman of No Means, the second Frances Emily novel; The Bloodstone, a novelized collection of linked murder mysteries from the casebook of Frances Emily’s granddaughter Amy Elizabeth Fletcher, and The Hangman, the second book from the casebook of Amy Elizabeth Fletcher. Most recently Madimi and The Monks of Arden, both set in late medieval England have appeared. He is also the author of Pen in Hand, A Meditation on the Art and Craft of the Short Story. All books are available from any of dozens of Internet booksellers or by order from your local bookstore. Google Ethard Van Stee for more than you ever wanted to know. He may be contacted at ethardvanstee@gmail.com. His website address is www.ethardvanstee.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1475972741
• ISBN 13: 9781475972740
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 362