Tony Harrison Plays 3

This third collection of Tony Harrison''s theatre work contains three plays, all of which were written to be performed in specific places in the world. <i>Poetry or Bust</i>, performed in September 1993, is about the Airedale poet John Nicholson (1790-1843) and was devised for the former wool-combing shed at Salts Mill, Saltaire, not a hundred yards from where Saltaire drowned. <i>The Kaisers of Carnuntum</i> was performed on 2 June 1995 in the Roman amphitheatre of Petronell/Carnuntum in Austria and has the bloody Commodus, a Roman Emperor and son of the philosopher Marcus Aureliues, returning to the former Roman frontier town.