Journey's End
eBook - ePub

Journey's End

The Classic War Play Explored

  1. 112 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Journey's End

The Classic War Play Explored

About this book

R C Sherriff's Journey's End is a syllabus text and the most famous play about World War One. First staged in 1928, this book tells the story of what went into the making of this extraordinary and powerful trench drama. It outlines Sherriff's career from humble insurance clerk to infantry officer and his unforgettable 10 months on the western front before he was invalided home, lucky to be alive. Sherriff poured into his first professional play his personal experience of living in a front-line dug-out. Using his diary and letters home, the book charts his emotional life under fire and relates it directly to the play, its events and its characters. It also tells the story of Journey's End's incredible box office success across the world, a triumph which made its shy young author famous overnight. Taking in the history of the show right up to the most recent productions, Journey's End: The Classic War Play Explored is a meditation on Journey's End's achievement as a war document, its fascination for audiences when it was first staged and its continuing grip on theatregoers and students today.

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Information

Publisher
Oberon Books
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781849433952
eBook ISBN
9781849438728
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
World War I
Index
History
Index of Names
Abrams, 2/Lt Louis ref1, ref2
Ackerley, J. R. ref1, ref2
Agate, James ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Amherst, Earl (Jeffery) ref1, ref2
Archer, William ref1
Barker, Howard ref1, ref2
Barrie J. M. ref1, ref2, ref3
Bartlett, Vernon ref1
Beaumont, Binkie ref1
Bergonzi, Bernard ref1
Billington, Michael ref1
Bishop, George ref1, ref2, ref3
Blunden, Edward ref1
Bousfield, H. T. W. ref1
Bracco, Rosa Maria ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Bradley, Paul ref1
Brown, Spencer Curtis ref1
Browne, Maurice ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Bryden, Bill ref1
Burke, Gregory ref1
Burrage, Alfred ref1
Butler, Robert ref1
Carroll, Lewis ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Carroll, Madeleine ref1
Cecil, Hugh ref1
Chilton, Charles ref1
Churchill, Winston ref1
Clark, Maj. “Nobby” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Clarke, Gregory ref1, ref2
Clive, Colin ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Connery, Jason ref1
Cooper, Melville ref1, ref2
Cornwell, Phil ref1
Coulson, Christian ref1
Coveney, Michael ref1
Coward, Noël ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Cumberbatch, Benedict ref1
Darlington, W. A. ref1, ref2
de la Fontaine, H. ref1, ref2, ref3
de Jongh, Nicholas ref1
Dean, Basil ref1
Dearmer, Geoffrey ref1
Douglass, Lt. C. ref1, ref2, ref3
Drinkwater, John ref1, ref2
Dyer, Geoff ref1
Egan, Peter ref1
Elmhirst, Dorothy ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Elmhirst, Leonard ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Ervine, St. John ref1, ref2, ref3
Evans Rees, David ref1
Evans, Maurice ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4,...

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. Fully Insured
  9. Creatives in Khaki
  10. The Gallants
  11. ‘That Awful Affair’
  12. Troglodyte
  13. Gingering Fritzy
  14. A Blasted Funk
  15. Blighty One
  16. Riverbank Amdram
  17. Civvy Street
  18. War Bunk
  19. The Cold Front
  20. Missing Presumed Dull
  21. Plays by R.C. Sherriff
  22. Index