{"product_id":"9781854594648-in-praise-of-love","title":"In Praise of Love","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn almost unbearably moving story of veiled emotions running deep, based on the true life situation of Rex Harrison's wife, Kay Kendall, and her early death from cancer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn almost unbearably moving story of veiled emotions running deep, Terence Rattigan's\u003cem\u003e In Praise of Love\u003c\/em\u003e is based on the true life situation of Rex Harrison's wife, Kay Kendall, and her early death from cancer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLydia is shielding her husband, Sebastian, from the knowledge that she is dying from leukaemia. But Sebastian does know and is seeking to spare her. She dies without either of them openly acknowledging their true feelings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe play was first produced as a one-act play under the title \u003cem\u003eAfter Lydia\u003c\/em\u003e in a double-bill with the short farce, \u003cem\u003eBefore Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e, at the Duchess Theatre, London, in September 1973. Rattigan reworked and extended the play as \u003cem\u003eIn Praise of Love\u003c\/em\u003e for its New York premiere at the Morosco Theatre in December 1974, starring Rex Harrison himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes an authoritative introduction, biographical sketch and chronology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eMichael Billington\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40836369580129,"sku":"9781854594648","price":10.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28143367.jpg?v=1722351743","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781854594648-in-praise-of-love","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}