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EDMUND MILLER
(1943 - )Nationality: USA
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Edmund Miller, Senior Professor of English at LIU-Post and former long-term Department Chair, is most renowned for The Go Go Boy Sonnets but has published two dozen other poetry books, most recently The Screwdriver's Apprentice. Three of his plays are in verse: The Greeks Have a Word (a reconstructed satyr play), Loving Cuckold (in heroic couplets), and Royal Favorite; or Regime Change (in blank verse). His screenplay Dueling Lady was recently published. His short fiction is collected in Night Times. Miller also writes extensively about British literature and is the acknowledged authority on Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno books and the author of Drudgerie Divine: The Rhetoric of God and man in George Herbert, the most comprehensive study of that author.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Cold Feet Colonel's Lady, The Dueling Lady: A Restoration Romp of Epic Proportions Greeks Have a Word, The Last Conquests of Beau Fersen, The; or, Boudoir Diplomacy Loving Cuckold: Restoration Rearrangements in Heroic Couplets Queen Christina in Exile; or, The Betrayal of Monldeschi Royal Favorite; or, Regime ChangeCold Feet
Synopsis:
After Drew reports an attempted pickpocketing, the police are very sympathetic but are obtuse about harassment by Sasha and unwilling to believe it could be anything but a domestic dispute, leaving Drew to settles for co-dependency with Claude-or anyone.
Notes:
Running time 00:15. Black box set.
1st Produced:
Cold Reading With Talk Bac K. Northport Reader's Theater
18 Feb 2013
Organisations:
Northport Reader's Theater
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Genre:
A modernist absurdity in a recursive scene as indeterminate as life.
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Male: - Female: - Other: 4 (flexible gender roles)
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Top of PageColonel's Lady, The
Synopsis:
When the imprisoned Commonwealth commander Colonel John Hutchinson discovers his wife as been overly enthusiastic in trying to effect his release from prison, he takes steps to deal with her, but her willfulness causes his plan to miscarry.
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Reading theater Piece with Talk Back. Running time 01:20 (designed as a radio play but adaptable).
1st Produced:
Lorber Hall
25/2013
Organisations:
LIU-Post Continuing Education event.
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Genre:
Radio play
Parts:
Male: 5 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageDueling Lady: A Restoration Romp of Epic Proportions
Synopsis:
With manly boldness, Hortense Duchess of Mazarin attracts King Charles II. His interest tested when she has an affair, she teaches him women are more attractive if free. When Barbara Duchess of Cleveland, a royal mistress, opposes her, Hortense befriends Barbara's daughter Anne, teaching Anne to assert herself in a public sword fight. Having neutralized court intrigue, Hortense helps the King convert to Catholicism on his deathbed, leaving a legacy of hope if not peace.
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Longer miniseries version published by Dizzy Emu (print and Kindle). 2017
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Genre:
Historical romance
Parts:
Male: 24 Female: 17 Other: -
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Top of PageGreeks Have a Word, The
Synopsis:
When Greek playwright Sophocles returns from the past to write a new tragedy, classical antiquity re-forms around him. By showing how Greek ideas of independent thought have come back in vogue in the past hundred years, supplanting Roman monolithic thought, he finds he is speaking as hero of a satyr play when the contemporary audience accepts chaos as plot resolution.
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Running time 01:30, no intermission.
1st Produced:
Humanities, Brookville NY 11548
08 Apr 2011
Organisations:
Hutton House Lecture, LIU-Post,
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Genre:
Comedy (satyr play)
Parts:
Male: 7 Female: 5 Other: -
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Top of PageLast Conquests of Beau Fersen, The; or, Boudoir Diplomacy
Synopsis:
As a consequence of his part in the fluid sexual politics of the royal court of early nineteenth-century Sweden, the central figure of Beau Fersen gives his life to allow the Gustavian courtiers to maintain benevolent autocracy, in the process inadvertently founding the Bernadotte dynasty.
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Running time 01:45 plus one intermission. Minimal set with furniture.
1st Produced:
Staged Reading Of Scene With Talk Bac K
01 Mar 2013
Organisations:
LIU-Post Honors Conference
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Genre:
Comedy/drama, specifically a Shavian talkfest in four acts with an epilogue.
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageLoving Cuckold: Restoration Rearrangements in Heroic Couplets
Synopsis:
Lord Cokeworthy thinks he has a marriage of convenience but alienates both his wife and his mistress, each lady objecting that he spends too much time with the other.
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1st Produced:
[reading] Hudson Guild Theatre. York, NY
29 Feb 2016
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Top of PageQueen Christina in Exile; or, The Betrayal of Monldeschi
Synopsis:
Living in France with her close (but not romantic) friend Cardinal Azzolino, the recently abdicated Queen Christina of Sweden is offered support as a French candidate for the throne of Naples although this might disaccommodate the Pope and disrupt the general political balance of Europe. The Marchese Monaldeschi, a gentleman of the Queen's court who imagines himself as her prospective lover, overhears the offer and reveals it to the Pope's representative, Cardinal Rospigliosi. A recent convert to Catholicism who wishes to remain in the good graces of the Pope, the Queen is incensed when she discovers the betrayal and calls for Monaldeschi's arrest. He flees, and her guards pursue him on the charge as Cardinal Azzolino attempts to offer the Queen's pardon. Monaldeschi is killed by misadventure, but the Queen will not put the blame on hapless guards. The ambiguities of the scandal cause the dispersal of the Queen's court, but she and Cardinal Azzolino hope to resume their friendship in the future in Rome.
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1st Produced:
Reading theater piece with Talk Back: LIU-Post Continuing Education event.
12 Mar 2017
Organisations:
LIU-Post Continuing Education event.
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Genre:
Historical drama
Parts:
Male: 8 (6 with doubling) Female: 3 (2 with doubling) Other: -
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Top of PageRoyal Favorite; or, Regime Change
Synopsis:
the Countess so passionately loves the Favorite that, in the process of marrying him, she inadvertently brings about the death of the friend who has made him what he is and thus reduces her beloved from glittering courtier to chastened country gentleman, supplanted by a new favorite.
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Running time 02:00 plus intermission. Minimal set with furniture. Cold Reading of scene 05 February 2013 Tuesdays@9 at Naked Angels, Daryl Roth theater
1st Produced:
Scene Reading With Talk Bac K. Grove City College
05 Apr 2013
Organisations:
George Herbert Society Regional Conference
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Genre:
Jacobean tragicomedy in blank verse with some rhyme.
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 4 Other: -
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