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The Sugar Wife (NHB Modern Plays), EPUB eBook

The Sugar Wife (NHB Modern Plays) EPUB

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Love, lust, prostitution and slavery in a 19th-century Quaker household. Winner of the 2006 Susan Smith Blackburn PrizeA devout Quaker, her wealthy husband, a freed American slave and her emancipator come together in 1840s Dublin.

As they interact, each is revealed to be rather less high-minded than they would like to be thought. 'Marvellous... intelligent and affecting' - Sunday Tribune'A moving play whose themes of charity, colonialism and morality resonate deeply' - Guardian'A consistently intelligent and beautifully shaped play' - Irish Times

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