The Banquet: The Complete Plays, Films, and Librettos

by Kenneth Koch

Book Overview

"Theater such as Kenneth Koch cannot be simply paraphrased, and presents to the audience the classic Mennipean challenge: to ponder, to mull it over, to think."--Mac Wellman

The Banquet brings together 144 plays, ten screenplays, and five operas spanning more than five decades of experimental work from a writer John Ashbery has called "simply the best we have." Witty, provocative, and playful, Kenneth Koch's work draws on poetry,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566893291
• ISBN13: 9781566893299
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 660 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"