The Alcestiad

By Thornton Wilder

Book Overview

Drunken sisters: A short, comic Satyr play wherein Apollo, disguised as a kitchen-boy, seeks to confound the three Fates to save the life of Admetus.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0573600473
• ISBN13: 9780573600470
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Concord Theatricals
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A lovely book for anyone who liked Our Town

This was a wonderful book. It reads a bit like Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, but more modern. There is humor and heroism, as well as grand thoughts of life. "Great happiness was given to me once, yes... but shall I forget that now? And forget the one who gave it to me? All that has happened since came from the same hands that gave me the happiness. I shall not doubt that it is good and has a part in something I cannot see..."