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Quills

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ISBN-10: 0822215314

ISBN-13: 9780822215318

Edition: N/A

Authors: Doug Wright

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THE STORY: Doctor Royer-Collard, head of Charenton Asylum, is visited by Renee Pelagie, wife of theasylum's most notorious inmate, the Marquis de Sade. Furious that her husband's sadomasochistic pornography has tarnished her reputation, she offers the Doctor any amount of money, if only her husband can be kept from writing. After confiscating the Marquis' quills and paper, the Abbe de Coulmier is surprised to find lascivious new stories circulating in public. The source? A lusty young seamstress named Madeleine has been smuggling material out of the asylum. Immediately, the Abbe bars the girl from seeing the Marquis, but ever resourceful, the Marquis pens his stories on his bedclothes in…    
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Book details

List price: $9.00
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.50" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English

Doug Wright plays include The Stonewater Rapture, Interrogating the Nude, Dinosaurs, The Rorschach Child, Lot 13: The Bone Violin, and a musical Buzzsaw Berkeley, written with Christopher Ashley and Michael John LaChiusa. Productions of Mr. Wright's work have appeared at the Yale Repertory Theatre, the WPA Theatre, and Lincoln Center Theater, among others. Television credits include pilots for producer Norman Lear. He received a bachelor's degree in art history from Yale University in 1985 and an MFA in playwriting from NYU in 1987, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.