Granville Barker Plays: 1 by Harley Granville Barker

Granville Barker Plays: 1 by Harley Granville Barker

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These plays are from the major British director of the first quarter of this century. His best-known plays including "Waste", were written as contributions to his company's repertoire of modern drama for a national theatre. "Waste" and "The Voysey Inheritance" played at the 1992 Edinburgh Festival.

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Granville Barker Plays: 1 by Harley Granville Barker

No one in Barker's generation did more to change British Theatre In The Voysey Inheritance, a young man deals with the discovery that the inheritence due to him has been mismanaged by his own parents; A Waste (banned by the Lord Chamberlain) deals with a young man's life thrown away; The Secret Life is a portrait of spendthrift, indolent Edwardian aristocracy; Rococo is a one-act farce set in a vicarage and Vote by Ballot shows the teething troubles of mass democracy.
Harley Granville Barker 's plays include Waste; The Madras House, first produced at Duke of York's Theatre, 1910; The Secret Life and His Majesty, which received its first production at the Edinburgh International Festival by Orange Tree Theatre Company in 1992.
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ISBN 13 9780413675309
ISBN 10 0413675300
Title Granville Barker Plays: 1
Author Harley Granville Barker
Series World Classics
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 1993-03-11
Number of pages 472
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.