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Professor Theo Ryan lives a quiet life teaching drama at Cavendish University in North Carolina, but everything gets turned upside down when he meets Ford Rexford-America's best-known playwright. Ford is the most talented and the most impossible man Theo has ever met. And Ford's genius, his reckless romanticism, and his fearless love of life profoundly influence the reticent scholar.
When Ford discovers that Theo has written a play, a madcap journey begins that pushes the young recluse out of the wings onto the bright, bustling stages of life and love. There he finds himself playing roles he never would have thought possible. In his most hilarious book since Handling Sin, Michael Malone has created a story as wildly funny as it is profoundly wise.
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Michael Malone is the author of ten novels, a collection of short stories and two works of nonfiction. Educated at Carolina and at Harvard, he is now a professor in Theater Studies at Duke University. Among his prizes are the Edgar, the O. Henry, the Writers Guild Award, and the Emmy. He lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina, with his wife.
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Contents
-Prologue -1
I-{scene: Rome, and the Neighborhood} -5
1-Whispers -6
2 -A Cry Within -21
3-Flourish -32
4-Aside -41
5-A Bell Rings -48
6-Music Is Heard -57
II-{scene: A Playhouse} -63
7-Here a Dance -64
8-They Speak Together -73
9-Enter Disguised -81
10-Aloft -87
11-Enter a Messenger with a Letter -94
12-A Trumpet Sounds -104
13-Thunder and Lightning -112
14-Storm Still -120
III-{scene: An Island} -131
15-Enter Time, a Chorus -132
16-A Banquet Is Prepared -142
17-Enter a Gentleman -148
18-Enter Several Strange Shapes -158
19-Exit Disguised and Muffled -165
IV-{scene: London, and Other Parts of England} -173
20-Enter the Messenger, as Before -174
21-Enter a Soothsayer -185
22-The Manor Bourne -200
23-A Great Procession -220
24-Accepts a Favor -235
25-Sound Retreat, Afar Off -250
26-Exit the Guardsman -268
V-{scene: Various Stages} -279
27-Interlude -280
28-Throws Down a Glove -294
29-Enter Two or Three Lords -312
30-Enter Bastard -324
31-General Alarum -340
32-They All Enter the Circle -350
33-Exeunt All But... -361
Epilogue -373
