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Love's fire

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1998125 pagesQuill

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Seven of Shakespeare's timeless love sonnets are reimagined as one-act plays by some of America's most celebrated playwrights in this unique collection. These short, brilliant works are published here for the first time, presented alongside the original sonnets that inspired them. It's an extraordinary project that brings classic poetry to life on stage.

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Eric Bogosian is best known for writing and starring in the play and the film adaptation of that play, Talk Radio (NYSF – 1987). For this work he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and received the Berlin Film Festival “Silver Bear Award.” He is also well known for his six solo performances Off-Broadway (Men Inside, FunHouse, Drinking in America, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead, Wake Up and Smell The Coffee) between 1980 and 2000, for which he received three Obie...

Ntozake Shange was a celebrated playwright and poet whose work explored the experiences of Black women. Her groundbreaking choreopoem, for colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf, remains a powerful and influential piece. Shange's writing often blended poetry, drama, and prose to create vivid and resonant narratives.

Marsha Norman is a writer whose work includes the play Love's Fire. She is known for her contributions to drama.

Marcus Sieff Professor of the History of Jewish/non Jewish Relations and Director of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton in the U.K.

William Finn is an author recognized for his work in fiction. His book, Love's Fire, is a notable example of his writing. Finn's stories often explore themes of human connection and emotion.

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