Elvis Monologues - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0435070444 ISBN 13: 9780435070441

Publisher: Heinemann Drama, 1997

Synopsis

Fresher than untrodden-upon blue suede, Elvis Monologues is the freshest, hip-swivelingest collection of monologues to hit the shelves since Shakespeare first rocked the globe.

About this title

About the Author:

Lavonne Mueller is a published playwright, textbook author, editor, and Fulbright Fellow. She has had more than ten plays produced Off-Broadway and her play The Only Woman General earned the Critic's Choice award at the Edinburgh Festival. She is currently a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in playwriting. Mueller is editor of Elvis Monologues (1997) and Baseball Monologues (1996), both published by Heinemann.

From Booklist:

Presleyana completists will certainly want to see this intriguing collection of monologues that together, says editor Mueller, "have ironically presented all the things that the real Elvis is and isn't." Some are touching explorations of what Elvis and, more important, the image of Elvis mean to people. Many are written in what might be called E-speak--southern American English with lots of references to hound dogs and Dixie cuisine--but "My Bonny Elvis" is in a mildly Scottish dialect. Uniting them all is that they are, finally, about the myth of Elvis, which has had effects far greater than anything the man could have achieved had he lived longer. Quirky and occasionally goofy or sappy, sometimes in genuine and revealing ways, these monologues are not all great writing. They are all sincere, though, and sure to please the legions of Elvis fans and maybe even send some to their own epiphanous encounters with his spirit. Mike Tribby

About this edition

• Publisher: Heinemann Drama
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0435070444
• ISBN 13: 9780435070441
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Mueller Lavonne