"A Wild West show in which Buffalo Bill plays himself provides the focal point of this uninhibited, lively, yet basically poignant drama that recreates the tragic situation of the American Indian at the end of the frontier period." --

A play dramatizing the philosopher, Henry David Thoreau, and his stand concerning civil disobedience. He refused to pay taxes owing to his disapproval of the Mexican War. For his act of protest he was sent to jail.

This is a play within a play. The cook has been murdered but her employers seem to be indifferent. Her son is in a seminary and in distress. The maid is pregnant. The valet is philandering. The playwright, the central character in this play, says that he has lost his touch and is suffering writer's block. The Harvard Crimson 8/1/1967 noted: "The thick plot involves murder, rape, abortion, white slavery, and class struggle. And yet the author-actor,...

"Antoine de St. Flour is dead when the curtain rises. A famous French playwright, he has collected under the terms of his will a motley assemblage of people to mourn him. Their grief, curelty, and humor become his tools, for, it turns out, they are the characters of his last play, performing for him alone their reaction to his death." (back cover)

Describes the prenatal development of identical and fraternal twins and discusses attitudes twins develop about each other.

Saved is a play by Edward Bond which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in November 1965. The play itself is set in London during the 1960s. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation of young people on the dole and living on council estates.

Explores the alienation between a father and son.