Gilgamesh Plays

Download or read book Gilgamesh Plays written by Jonathan Bayliss and published by Drawbridge Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These dramatic works, The Tower of Gilgamesh and The Acts of Gilgamesh, take place in Sumer (now southern Iraq), where it is said that civilization began: the first writing, numbering, and accounting systems, the first literature, and, for better or worse, the Tower of Babel. Loosely based on the Gilgamesh legend, together the plays form a comedic tragedy exploring — with humor, imagination, and spirited language — ideas about free will, love, creativity, friendship, and religion. Jonathan Bayliss (1926-2009) is also the author of the novels Prologos, Gloucesterbook, Gloucestertide, and Gloucestermas, which form his expansive fiction tetralogy GLOUCESTERMAN.