Beauty and the Beast (NHB Modern Plays) RSC

by Laurence Boswell (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.36

  A darkly dramatic re-telling of a well-known tale for The Royal Shakespeare Company's 2003 Christmas show. In Beauty and the Beast , we encounter two worlds. The domestic world of Beauty's family in mid-18th-century France, safe and familiar/ And another world, first stumbled upon by her merchant father: a place of great riches and disturbing nightmares, dominated the fearsome and tragic Beast. Uniting the two is Beauty's humility and sense of duty, which slowly matures into a transforming love.

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.63

  In Beauty and the Beast we encounter two worlds: the safe and familiar world of Beauty's family, and one stumbled upon by her merchant father, a place of great riches and disturbing nightmares, dominated by the fearsome and tragic Beast. Uniting the two is Beauty's humility and sense of duty, which slowly matures into a transforming love.