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The Custom of the Country
Series: NHB Modern Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
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First Staged:
Royal Shakespeare Company, 1983

The Custom of the Country

By Nicholas Wright
Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
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Nicholas Wright's early play The Custom of the Country transposes John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's bawdy Jacobean drama to 1890s Johannesburg.

It was premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1983.

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Series: NHB Modern Plays
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
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Also by Nicholas Wright:

The Desert Air
Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
Mrs Klein
The Slaves of Solitude
Three Sisters
Naked
The Last of the Duchess
The Reporter
8 Hotels
Cressida
His Dark Materials
Vincent in Brixton
Travelling Light
One Fine Day
Treetops
John Gabriel Borkman
Regeneration
Rattigan's Nijinsky
Lulu
Thérèse Raquin

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