Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas

by Dario Fo

Book Overview

Winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature, Dario Fo is one of the world's most important contemporary playwrights, forging subversive comedy, clowning, unusual linguistic experimentation, and brilliant playwriting into a comedy of complete originality. In a first-person monologue that bends and mutates language and historical fact, Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas is a brilliant, vividly imagined retelling of Christopher Columbus's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802137776
• ISBN13: 9780802137777
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.8" x 9.2"