Oxford Playscripts: The Three Musketeers

by Ken Ludwig (Adapter), Alexandre Dumas

Acclaimed Broadway playwright Ken Ludwig's humorous adaptation of this classic tale.

Genres: Plays

144 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2008

About the author

KEN LUDWIG is an internationally-acclaimed playwright whose work has been performed in more than 30 countries in over 20 languages. He has had 6 shows on Broadway and 6 in the West End. He has won two Laurence Olivier Awards, two Helen Hayes Awards, the Edgar Award, the SETC Distinguished Career Award, the Edwin Forrest Award for Services to the Theatre and he is a McCarter/Sallie B. Goodman Fellow. His plays have been commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Bristol Old Vic. His first play on Broadway, Lend Me A Tenor, won three Tony Awards and the New York Times called it "one of the two great farces by a living writer." His other best-known Broadway and West End shows include Crazy For You (5 years on Broadway, Tony Award Winner for Best Musical), Moon Over Buffalo, Leading Ladies, Twentieth Century, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Game’s Afoot, The Fox on the Fairway, Midsummer/Jersey, The Three Musketeers, Treasure Island and The Beaux’ Stratagem. His plays have starred Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Lynn Redgrave, Mickey Rooney, Hal Holbrook, Dixie Carter, Tony Shalhoub, Anne Heche, Joan Collins, and Kristin Bell. His book, How To Teach Your Children Shakespeare, was published in June 2013 by Random House, and his work has been published by the Yale Review. He has degrees from Harvard, where he studied music with Leonard Bernstein, Haverford College and Cambridge University. For more information, please visit www.kenludwig.com

Reviews

[Pam · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very complicated play. It would be hard to produce.

[Toyohiro · Rating 4 out of 5]

-The Three Musketeers
-130mini
-7word summury Musketeer-gun-King-diamond-Athos-Aramis-D'Artaragnan
-Disucussion questions
1.Have you ever seen real guns?
a,No,I haven't. I don't want to see guns.
2.Do you want to be musketeer?
a,Hum...,let me see, That's difficult question. I want stimuras, but I don't want to death.

This book is famous, so my expectation is high. This book is as expected.

[Angi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Love the Classics and am hoping to read this one aloud to my family some day soon. Hope the kids appreciate it as much as I did the first time I read it.

[Lindsay · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very ambitious play that is basically non-stop action. Does a good job capturing the story without getting bogged down too much in the details.

[Lehcar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Doing this show :) also I very much appreciate the approach to Milady’s character