Alice in Bed: A Play in Eight Scenes Paperback - 1993 - 1st Edition
by Susan Sontag
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Alice in Bed is a free dramatic fantasy based on the life of Alice James (1848-92), the brilliant sister of William and Henry James. The waters of depression closed over Alice James when she was nineteen; she tried to summon the courage to commit suicide, she suffered from a variety of vague and debilitating ailments, she went abroad, she stayed in bed, she kept a diary, and she died... at age forty-three. In Susan Sontag's play, Alice James merges imaginatively with the other great Alice of her period, the heroine of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. A tea party is convened where Alice is counseled by Emily Dickinson and Margaret Fuller and by two exemplary angry women from the nineteenth-century stage: Myrtha, the Queen of the Wilis (from Giselle), and Kundry (from Wagner's Parsifal), the guilt-ridden woman who wants to sleep. Alice in Bed is a play about the anguish and grief and rage of women, about mental traveling, about the triumphs and limitations of the imagination. It is a powerful and memorable addition to Susan Sontag's achievement as a writer.
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- Title Alice in Bed: A Play in Eight Scenes
- Author Susan Sontag
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 117
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, New York, NY
- Date 1993-06-19
- ISBN 9780374523855 / 0374523851
- Weight 0.31 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 4.96 x 0.36 in (20.57 x 12.60 x 0.91 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Women - Drama, James, Alice - Drama
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93071280
- Dewey Decimal Code 812.54
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- Booklist, 08/01/1993, Page 2031
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