description: From Henry James's brilliant evocation of the social scene in nineteenth-century Boston, award-winning playwright Robert Manson Myers has fashioned a trenchant satire sure to prove controversial as it debates the rule of women in "the city of reform" and challenges accepted views of love, courtship and marriage. By ironic good fortune, Henry James, bitterly disappointed at the disastrous failure of his own plays, created superlative novels readily adapted by others to the scenic stage. Now readers and playgoers who remember The Heiress (1948), The Innocents (1950), The Aspern Papers (1958), and The Wings of the Dove (1963) will delight in The Bostonians , drawn from one of the few James novels exclusively American in setting and theme. "I wished to write a very American tale," James wrote in his Notebooks - " a tale very characteristic of our social conditions; and I asked myself what was the most salient and peculiar point in our social life. The answer the situation of women, the decline of the sentiment of sex, the agitation on their behalf." from the inside jacket flap
language: English
title: The Bostonians: A Play in Two Acts
titlecomplete: The Bostonians: A Play in Two Acts
publisher: Jostens Books