| Waste Contributor(s): Granville Barker, Harley Granville (Author) |
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ISBN: 147427739X ISBN-13: 9781474277396 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Performing Arts | Theater - Playwriting - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 822.912 |
| Series: Modern Plays |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 5.06" W x 7.81" (0.29 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A scandal half-stifled is worse than a scandal. One is at everybody's mercy. Backstage at a hung parliament, visionary Independent Henry Trebell is co-opted by the Tories to push through a controversial Bill. Pursuing his cause with missionary zeal, he's barely distracted by his brief affair with a married woman until she suffers a lethal backstreet abortion. Threatened by public scandal, the Establishment closes ranks and coolly seals the fate of an idealistic man. Famously banned by the censors in 1907, Harley Granville Barker's controversial masterpiece gathers a large ensemble to expose a cut-throat, cynical world of sex, sleaze and suicide amongst the political elite of Edwardian England. This edition was published for the National Theatre's revival in November 2015. |