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Blood Brothers

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ISBN-10: 0413695107

ISBN-13: 9780413695109

Edition: 1995 (Student Manual, Study Guide, etc.)

Authors: Willy Russell, Jim Mulligan, Chris Megson, Jenny Stevens

List price: $14.95
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A Liverpudlian West Side Story, Blood Brothers is the story of twin brothers separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. One of them is given away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath. This edition also contains a chronology of the playwright's life and work; an introduction giving the background to the play; teaching notes, interviews with the playwright and actors, discussion of the themes and ideas for further work; a glossary of words and phrases, photographs from stage productions. "Willy Russell is less concerned with political tub-thumping…    
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Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 10/27/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.48" wide x 7.89" long x 0.34" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English

Chris Megson is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has taught and published widely in the field of modern drama, and is editor of The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays. Other works include: Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present (with Alison Forsyth, 2011), and Modern British Playwriting: The 70s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations (2012).

Jenny Stevens is in Associate Lecturer for the Open University and a constultant for Ofqual as well as teacher trainer and a teacher of A Level English Literature.

Willy Russell: a brief chronology
Introduction
Act One
Act Two
Teaching notes
What it's all about--meaning and plot
Studying the characters
The actors speak
Working at the words
The themes in the play
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