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The General from America

The General from America

by RichardNelson (Author)

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    Paperback 1996

    $3.55
Synopsis

In 1780 America's most successful general, Benedict Arnold, surrendered his soldiers, handed George Washington to the British, and ended the War of Independence. This play presents an emotional portrait of a man searching for love and country and finding only compromise and despair.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 112
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 22 Jul 1996
ISBN 10: 0571190189
ISBN 13: 9780571190188
Book Overview: The General from America by Richard Nelson presents a richly emotional portrait of General Benedict Arnold, a man searching for love and country, and finding only compromise and despair.

Author Bio
Richard Nelson's plays include Farewell to the Theatre, Nikolai and the Others, Sweet and Sad, That Hopey Changey Thing, Conversations in Tusculum, How Shakespeare Won the West, Frank's Home, Rodney's wife, Franny's Way, Madame Melville, Goodnight Children Everywhere, The General From America, New England, Misha's Party (with Alexander Gelman), Columbus or the Discovery of Japan, Two Shakespearean Actors, Some Americans Abroad, Left, Life Sentences, Principia Scriptoriae. He was written the musicals Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano (with Peter Golub), James Joyce's The Dead (with Shaun Davey), My Life With Albertine (with Ricky Ian Gordon), the screenplays for the films Hyde Park-on-Hudson (Roger Michell director) and Ethan Frome (John Madden director). He has received numerous awards both in America and abroad, including a Tony Award (Best Book of a Musical for James Joyce's The Dead), and Oliver Award (Best Play for Goodnight Children Everywhere), Tony nominations (Best Play for Two Shakespearean Actors; Best Score as co-lyricist for James Joyce's The Dead), an Olivier nomination (Best Comedy for Some Americans Abroad), two Obies, a Lortel Award, a New York Drama Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lila Wallace-Readers' Digest Writers Award. He is the recipient of the PEN/Laura Pels Master Playwright Award, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and he is an Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He lives in upstate New York.