In Extremis - Softcover

Brenton, Howard

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21 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854599402 ISBN 13: 9781854599407

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2007

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One night, a society palm-reader agreed to see Oscar Wilde in her London flat. Wilde’s lover was urging him to sue the Marquis of Queensberry for criminal libel. But Wilde’s friends were warning him to leave town. In Extremis reveals the strange turmoil of that night, as a man at the height of his fame turns to a complete stranger for advice about a potentially life-changing decision.

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About the Author:

Howard Brenton was born in 1942 in Portsmouth, where his father was a policeman and a lay preacher. He had written several plays for the Royal Court, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the National Theatre before "Romans in Britain" (1980) was famously the cause of a failed prosecution by moral crusaders.

Review:

"'A passionate, bracing play of ideas that has topical urgency as well as historical fascination' Financial Times 'Romeo and Juliet with more brains... Highly recommended' Daily Telegraph"

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