Houdini: A Musical - Rilegato

Rukeyser, Muriel; Spangler, David

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1930464045 ISBN 13: 9781930464049

Casa editrice: Wesleyan Univ Pr, 2002

Riassunto

This previously unpublished verse-drama presents the life of world-renowned escape artist and illusionist, Harry Houdini. Part biography, part fantasy, the musical leads us from Houdini's childhood in Appleton, Wisconsin (picking up pins with his eyelids) to his acts under water and his travels abroad. With pathos and playfulness, song and dance, Muriel Rukeyser introduces us to Houdini's wife Bess and his mother Cecilia, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the poet's own Marco Bone. The musical presents Houdini's congressional testimony against spiritual mediums, and shows his great feats of escape, his complex relationships with his mother and his wife, and his ironic, untimely death on Halloween 1926.
Throughout this remarkable work, Rukeyser challenges the locks and constraints that imprison us all. She invites us to overcome whatever fears entrap us and - through the life of Harry Houdini - she shows us what it means to claim the freedom that is our birth right.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) is one of our country's most influential yet overlooked writers. She published fifteen collections of poetry, plays, translations, children's books, and several works of nonfiction. Her "toys of fame" include the Yale Younger Poets Award, the Copernicus Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Shelley Memorial Award. From 1975-1976, she served as president of P.E.N. American Center.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Wesleyan Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1930464045
• ISBN 13: 9781930464049
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 160
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile