Poynton Park
Subtitle: A Play in Three Acts
Publisher: Jostens Books
Published: January 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780975953051
Subjects: Drama; Plays / Drama; Plays; American; General; Courtship; England; Inheritance and succession; Mothers and sons
Description: Poynton Park is the home of old Mrs. Gereth, an antique collector with impeccable taste who has filled her lodgings with splendid art objects and furniture. The possessive Mrs. Gereth wants her weak-willed son to marry a pleasant young woman who shares her refined tastes. Instead he becomes engaged to a vulgar, greedy woman, and the treasures of Poynton become the prize over which mother and fiancee battle. In the end Poynton and its spoils, which have destroyed all of the [play's] relationships, are immolated in a fire of undetermined origin. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature.