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The Twelve Plays of Christmas - Traditional and Modern Plays for the Holidays

Lowell Swortzell - ed Price: $19.95

Here is a joyous pageant of plays by masters through the ages ...

These masters include Dylan Thomas, Charles Dickens, Thornton Wilder, Langston Hughes, and Hans Christian Andersen

You'll find “The Traditional Christmas Pageant” & “The Second Shepherd's Play” in a modernized text and a lively version of “Saint George and the Dragon”

And Comedies like “A Visit from Saint Nicholas” & “Amahl and the Night Visitors” & “Kringle's Window” & “A Partridge in a Pear Tree”

There's also more serious works such as “A Child's Christmas in Wales” & “Black Nativity” & “Scrooge and Marley” & “The Match Girl's Gift”

And “The Long Christmas Dinner” - described by critic John Gassner as “... the most beautiful one-act play in English prose”

These delightful works are ideally suited for performances in the classroom, sanctuary, or theatre

Ranging from the traditional to the contemporary, the Plays can also be enjoyed for themselves as holiday reading that reminds us how Christmas has inspired great writers to their highest dramatic achievements
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