A Ladder of Words: Mid-Twentieth-Century Welsh Plays in English Cottis David
A Ladder of Words: Mid-Twentieth-Century Welsh Plays in English Cottis David When the north Wales-born actor and playwright Emlyn Williams performed his one-man show about Dylan Thomas, the critic…
Specifikacia A Ladder of Words: Mid-Twentieth-Century Welsh Plays in English Cottis David
A Ladder of Words: Mid-Twentieth-Century Welsh Plays in English Cottis David
When the north Wales-born actor and playwright Emlyn Williams performed his one-man show about Dylan Thomas, the critic Richard Findlater described him as 'unravelling a ladder of words' which he then climbs up, and pulls the spectators after him. This volume brings together three Welsh plays from the middle of the twentieth century: Rhondda Roundabout (1939) by Jack Jones, from his own novel, a panoramic view of politics, religion, sport, and music in the Valleys, described by the Sunday Times critic James Agate as 'too good for the West End'; The Druid's Rest (1944) by Emlyn Williams, a semi-autobiographical comedy about the fantasy life of an over-imaginative boy who Findlater called this 'the Cambrian rope trick, ' highlighting the process by which writers, and Welsh writers in particular, use the power of language to take an audience into an unfamiliar world.