Granville Barker Plays: 1: Voysey Inheritance; Waste; The Secret Life; Rococo; Vote by Ballot: Plays One: v. 1 (World Classics)

by Harley Granville Barker (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $5.87

  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.

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $17.31

  The first volume in Oberon's new edition of Howard Barker's plays, this includes some of his most acclaimed work. A forthright discussion of the role of the artist in society, Scenes from an Execution is set in the aftermath of the Battle of Lepanto. Victory follows the story of a widow seeking to reinvent herself in the aftermath of the civil war. The Europeans takes place in 1683 after the siege of Vienna and is a tragic meditation on the everlasting conflict between Christianity and Islam. The Possibilities are ten short plays that weigh the advantages of surrender and resistance in a chaotic world...

• New

  Paperback
  1994

  $29.77

  No one in Barker's generation did more to change British Theatre The Marrying of Ann Leete, is thinly veiled costume drama, using an 18th century tale to reflect on 19th century reality, it follows the story of Ann a new woman , surrounded by a society of manoeuvres and lies; The Madras House follows the fortunes of the Madras family at the height of Edwardian expansion of London and the reformation of ideas about society and gender roles; His Majesty is the fictional story of the king of a cash-strapped Eastern European country where naive make-believe meets the dark universe of realpolitik; Farewell to the Theatre is a witty commentary on the trials and tribulations of a theatre and its actors.