{"product_id":"9781408123898","title":"Murphy Plays: 6: The Cherry Orchard; She Stoops to Folly; The Drunkard; The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMurphy Plays: 6 \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together four plays by the author inspired by other great works of literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cherry Orchard\u003c\/i\u003e: In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces, forces rooted deep in history and in the society around them. Tom Murphy's fine vernacular version allows us to re-imagine the events of the play in the last days of Anglo-Irish colonialism. It gives this great play vivid new life within our own history and social consciousness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe Stoops to Folly\u003c\/i\u003e: Modelled on Oliver Goldsmith's classic novel \u003ci\u003eThe Vicar of Wakefield\u003c\/i\u003e, Murphy builds a comedy peopled with thieves, pimps, bawds, lechers and imposters who will prey on innocence unless God - or the ruling class - takes a hand. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Drunkard\u003c\/i\u003e is inspired by the American temperance play first performed in 1844 and attributed to W. H. Smith and A gentleman. A drama in five acts, it was perhaps the most popular play produced in the United States before the dramatization of \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e in the 1850s.\u003cbr\u003eAn epic family drama, shot through with dark humour, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant\u003c\/i\u003e tells the tragic story of a family disintegrating, having lost its moral values and is inspired by \u003ci\u003eThe Golovlyov Family\u003c\/i\u003e by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. It follows Arina who rises from servant girl to matriarch controlling a vast family estate and empire until she slackens her hold and loses her power to the hypocrisy and relentless grasping of her chosen son.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126091661552,"sku":"9781408123898","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781408123898_p0.jpg?v=1763717944","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781408123898","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}