Dear Elizabeth: A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again: A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and

by Sarah Ruhl

Book Overview

From playwright Sarah Ruhl, Dear Elizabeth is a moving, innovative play based on one of the greatest correspondences in literary history--the letters of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.

From 1947 to 1977, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop exchanged more than four hundred letters. Describing the writing of their poems, their travel and daily illnesses, the pyrotechnics of their romantic relationships, and the profound affection...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865478155
• ISBN13: 9780865478152
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"