Wesker's Love Plays

Includes the plays The Four Seasons, Love Letters on Blue Paper and Lady Othello

Spanning three decades of impassioned and inspiring work, the three plays in this volume show in cross-section Arnold Wesker''s development as one of the key figures of late-twentieth-century drama.

Each play grapples with the timeless problems accompanying two people in love. The most intimate and personal of relationships are placed under uncompromising scrutiny. Bold, elemental and structurally satisfying, The Four Seasons (1964) depicts the ebb and flow of a couple''s relationship, its power games and its politics, over the course of its year-long life. In Love Letters on Blue Paper (1977) we witness the late-blooming love of a woman for her dying husband in a drama of memory and companionship. Playful, witty and continualy surprising, Lady Othello (1987) gets right to the heart of an urgent, all-consuming, passionate affair.