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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:

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

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