Travesties

STOPPARD, Tom

Published by Faber and Faber, 1975

About this Item

STOPPARD, Tom. Travesties. London: Faber and Faber, 1975 8vo., green publisher s boards lettered in gilt to spine; together in the original unclipped pictorial dustwrapper (£2.50 net), showing photographs of John Wood as Henry Carr and Beth Morris as Cecily Carruthers; pp. [ix], 10-99, [i]; a near-fine copy; inscription to ffep To Peter Collins [?] Sept 75 Oxford; pages very slightly toned; in fresh jacket, just a touch toned along spine and folds, with very light shelf wear to spine tips and edges and a couple of small dark marks to the front flap; endpaper very lightly stuck to final page. First edition. In the 1970s, Stoppard had been struck by a fact which he had stumbled across - that Joyce, Lenin and Tzara had all been in Zurich in 1917 - and decided to centre a play around an idea which brought all three characters together. In doing so, he created Henry Carr, an octogenarian with an unreliable memory looking back five decades later on the events which unfolded. The real Henry Carr was an actor who had been managed by Joyce and who, after the pair fell out, was parodied in Ulysses. Travesties was originally performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre on the 10 June 1974. Seller Inventory # 0136

Bibliographic Details

Title: Travesties

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Publication Date: 1975

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 1st Edition