ISBN: 0887541011

On the simplest level, Zastrozzi is an outrageous melodrama. But there's something more deadly urgent here. And it's that something which makes the play linger in the mind's eye, long a… More...

On the simplest level, Zastrozzi is an outrageous melodrama. But there's something more deadly urgent here. And it's that something which makes the play linger in the mind's eye, long after the final incidents have passed. Zastrozzi stakes out its own exact place in the history of Western Europe. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the modern era is struggling to be born. Zastrozzi is already a figure out of his time. He comes on like some medieval nightmare, wielding his sword and dagger as though they were still the most lethal weapons on earth. His attitude is mercilessly aristocratic. His foe is the new middle class with its shiny new liberal education and its fancy for art. He is out to annihilate the whole of culture and morality: "It is my responsibility to spread out like a disease and purge. And by destroying everything make everything safe... Alive. Untouched by expectation. Free of history. Free of everything." This man lives totally outside the moral system. He is an appalling creature, and his domination is all the more disturbing because it runs entirely counter to all the accepted notions of Western culture. The main thing about Zastrozzi is that he always wins. His pride is never punished, by god or man. Mediocrity must be punished - and Zastrozzi is there, to do it with style. And to add insult to injury, he resurrects that unfashionable virtue called "discipline" to explain his power to make us answerable. So, in fact, the moral american literature,arts music and photography,drama,humanities,humor and entertainment,literature,literature and fiction,performing arts,textbooks Performing Arts, Playwrights Union of Canada<

ISBN: 0887541011

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1979, ISBN: 0887541011

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[EAN: 9780887541018], [PU: Playrights Co-op, Toronto], CANADIAN THEATRE, DRAMA, DRAMATURGE, PLAYS, GEORGE F. WALKER, HISTORICAL REVENGE PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, TORONTO FREE, A near fine cop… More...

[EAN: 9780887541018], [PU: Playrights Co-op, Toronto], CANADIAN THEATRE, DRAMA, DRAMATURGE, PLAYS, GEORGE F. WALKER, HISTORICAL REVENGE PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, TORONTO FREE, A near fine copy, a trace of wear to the spine,without reading crease, inscriptions or bumping to corners. 69 pp., with 11pp. of black and white photos. Loosely based upon Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1810 novel, Zastrozzi: A Romance. There was no hardbound issue. Covers are mylar-protected.<

1979, ISBN: 0887541011

Paperback

[EAN: 9780887541018], [SC: 19.01], [PU: Playwrights Co-Op, Toronto], 8vo. pp 69, [13]. Original publisher's black and white illustrated wraps with black and white lettering at the spine a… More...

[EAN: 9780887541018], [SC: 19.01], [PU: Playwrights Co-Op, Toronto], 8vo. pp 69, [13]. Original publisher's black and white illustrated wraps with black and white lettering at the spine and front cover. Illustrated in black and white. ISBN: 0887541011 Slight shelf wear and very light creasing at corners and edges of wraps. Otherwise a good second hand copy., Books<