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Modern Plays Ser.: Waste by Harley Granville Barker (2015, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBloomsbury Publishing

ISBN-10147427739X

ISBN-139781474277396

eBay Product ID (ePID)20038669471

Product Key Features

Number of Pages128 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameWaste

Publication Year2015

SubjectTheater / Playwriting, General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

TypeTextbook

AuthorHarley Granville Barker

Subject AreaDrama, Performing Arts

SeriesModern Plays Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight4.8 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

ReviewsWritten in 1907 and revised in 1926, it takes its time (just over three hours), but encompasses a vast amount: English smugness and hypocrisy, the intricacies of power and the danger of divorcing campaigning idealism from emotional fulfilment. Granville Barker's skill lies in his seamless blend of private and public life . . . You emerge wrung through from a play that is not only the source of much state-of-the-nation drama but also, I suspect, Granville Barker's own self-indictment.

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal822.912

SynopsisA 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.

LC Classification NumberPR6013.R29