Beat the Devil
A Covid Monologue
Published on 28. August 2020
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Paperback/Softback
32 pages
978-0-571-36608-8 (ISBN)
Description
Covid-19 seems to be a sort of dirty bomb, thrown into the body to cause havoc.
On the same day that the UK government finally made the first of two decisive interventions that led to a conspicuously late lockdown, David Hare contracted Covid-19. Nobody seemed to know much about it then, and many doctors are not altogether sure they know much more today. Suffering a pageant of apparently random symptoms, Hare recalls the delirium of his illness, which mixed with fear, dream, honest medicine and dishonest politics to create a monologue of furious urgency and power.
On the same day that the UK government finally made the first of two decisive interventions that led to a conspicuously late lockdown, David Hare contracted Covid-19. Nobody seemed to know much about it then, and many doctors are not altogether sure they know much more today. Suffering a pageant of apparently random symptoms, Hare recalls the delirium of his illness, which mixed with fear, dream, honest medicine and dishonest politics to create a monologue of furious urgency and power.
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Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
53 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-36608-8 (9780571366088)
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David Hare's first full-length play was produced in 1970. Since then he has written over thirty stage plays and thirty screenplays for film and television. In a millennial poll of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, five of the top hundred were his.