An Inspector Calls and Other Plays

Author: J. B. Priestley
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014118535X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 359

Book Description
An inspector calls, the title play in this collection, was written inside a week in 1944. Inspector Goole, investigating a girl's death, calls on the Birlings, an outwardly virtuous household.

An Inspector Calls

Author: John Boynton Priestley
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822205722
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description
The members of an eminently respectable British family reveal their true natures over the course of an evening in which they are subjected to a routine inquiry into the suicide of a young girl.

An Inspector Calls and Other Plays

Author: J B Priestley
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141917113
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
'We don't live alone ... We are responsible for each other' A policeman interrupts a rich family's dinner to question them about the suicide of a young working-class girl. As their guilty secrets are gradually revealed over the course of the evening, 'An Inspector Calls', J. B. Priestley's most famous play, shows us the terrible consequences of poverty and inequality. The other powerful plays in this collection - 'Time and the Conways', 'I Have Been Here Before' and 'The Linden Tree' - explore time, fate, free will and the effects of war. 'A vastly talented and exceptionally versatile and wise writer' Iris Murdoch 'Priestley was volcanic, fertile ... and never dull' Anthony Burgess If you enjoyed An Inspector Calls, you might like Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

Angel Pavement

Author: J. B. Priestley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912101528
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398

Book Description

A Director Calls

Author: Wendy Lesser
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520212626
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Presents the details of director Stephen Daldry's work on the acclaimed play, "An Inspector Calls," in an attempt to reveal his intepretative approach to theater

An Inspector Calls

Author: Jason Cobley
Publisher: Classical Comics: Original Tex
ISBN: 9781907127236
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Graphic novel that features the entire script of Priestley's 1945 play. The Birling family are spending a happy evening celebrating the engagement of Sheila Birling to Gerald Croft - a marriage that will result in the merging of two successful local businesses. Yet, just when everything seems to be going so well, they receive a surprise visit from an Inspector Goole who is investigating the suicide of a young girl. As the Inspector reveals more about the circumstances that led to the death of Eva Smith, each member of the family comes under the spotlight, and questions of guilt and responsibility are raised.

Quills and Other Plays

Author: Doug Wright
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429998547
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 390

Book Description
Selected early works from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. Throughout his work, Doug Wright has often combined the personal, the social, and the political, in the process unearthing fundamental truths about life and art while casting an unblinking eye on the dark--and darkly funny--side of human nature. Gathered here are three of Wright's early plays, including Interrogating the Nude, a tongue-in-cheek reimagining of the uproar surrounding the debut of Marcel Duchamp's work in America; Watbanaland, a satiric dissection of yuppie desire and a haunting look at family and faith; and the Obie Award-winning Quills, which explores the boundaries of artistic expression and the dangers of censorship as they played out in the Marquis de Sade's final days at Charenton Asylum.

An Inspector Calls

Author: Michael White
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Charlie Horse has very set ideas of just how his pub should be run. No food (apart from crisps and nuts) and very definite ideas about what kind of customers are welcome in his hostelry. Unbeknown to Charlie however, there is something very odd indeed going on in "The Bucket and Shovel", and for just this once, Charlie is going to be the last person to find out. Because very shortly, an inspector is going to call...

I Have Been Here Before

Author: John Boynton Priestley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Good Companions

Author: Edward Koblock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780573111976
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description