Ebook {Epub PDF} Lettice and Lovage: A Comedy by Peter Shaffer

Lettice and Lovage is a very pleasant and mildly subversive comedy, very literate and easy to read-Shaffer is a great writer-and proves intelligent and enjoyable. Mostly a two-hander, Lettice is a somewhat eccentric lady who guides Preservation Trust homes and sites, ever enjoyable with a sense of the grandiose, embellishing to the point of distraction/5. Not one to go without a fight, Lettice engages the stoic, conventionial Lotte in a battle to the death of all that is sacred to the Empire and the crown. This hit by the author of Equus and Amadeus featured a triumphant, award-winning performance by Dame Maggie Smith in .  · Peter Shaffer. · Rating details · ratings · 37 reviews. Lettice Duffet, an expert on Elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry, is an indefatigable but daffy enthusiast of history and the theatre. As a tour guide at Fustian House, one of the least stately of London's stately homes, she theatrically embellishes its historical past, ultimately coming up on the radar of Lotte Schon, an /5.

Lettice and lovage: a comedy in three acts Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. Lettice and lovage: a comedy in three acts by Shaffer, Peter, Publication date Publisher London: A. Deutsch Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; china. Peter Shaffer's first play, The Salt Land, was produced on television by the BBC in His first Broadway play Five Finger Exercise opened in and was adapted into a movie. His other Broadway plays included The Private Ear, The Public Eye, Black Comedy, White Lies, and Lettice and Lovage. Playwright Peter Levin Shaffer was born in in Liverpool, one of twin boys. His brother, Anthony, also went on to become a playwright. The family moved to London in , and Peter spent three years as a 'Bevin Boy' working in a coal mine, before going to Cambridge University to study History.

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