{"product_id":"9781780019505","title":"Rapaccinni's Daughter (NHB Modern Plays)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe only play by Latin America's foremost living poet and the Mexican Nobel laureate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. When Giovanni comes to stay in a room overlooking the strange overgrown garden of Dr Rappaccini, he has eyes only for his host's beautiful daughter. But many men before have been warned away from her, and slowly he discovers the terrible truth: that her father is using her as part of an experiment on the human will to live, and has turned her into a living phial of poison.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaken from the collection, \u003cem\u003eLatin American Plays\u003c\/em\u003e, an essential introduction to the fascinating but largely unexplored theatre of Latin America, \u003cem\u003eRappaccini's Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e by Octavio Paz is a dramatic poem about love and the loss of innocence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe full collection features new translations of five contemporary plays written by some of the region's most exciting writers. Each play is accompanied by an illuminating interview with its author conducted by the theatre director, Sebastian Doggart, who has also selected and translated the plays and provided an introductory history of Latin American drama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection also includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNight of the Assassins\u003c\/em\u003e by José Triana\u003cbr\u003eA controversial Cuban play in which three siblings plot the murder of their parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSaying Yes\u003c\/em\u003e by Griselda Gambaro\u003cbr\u003eA controversial Cuban play in which three siblings plot the murder of their parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrchids in the Moonlight\u003c\/em\u003e by Carlos Fuentes\u003cbr\u003eA grotesque comedy from Argentina about man's inhumanity to man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMistress of Desires\u003c\/em\u003e by Mario Vargas Llosa\u003cbr\u003ePeru's most acclaimed writer interweaves reality and fantasy in an erotically charged tale.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hern, Nick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131271594224,"sku":"9781780019505","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780019505_p0.jpg?v=1763711741","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780019505","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}