DOCSLIB.ORG

An Inspector Calls: and Other Plays Free Will, but of the Two I Definitely Enjoyed the Latter the Most

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
An Inspector Calls: and Other Plays Free Will, but of the Two I Definitely Enjoyed the Latter the Most FREE AN INSPECTOR CALLS: AND OTHER PLAYS PDF J. B. Priestley | 304 pages | 06 Oct 2015 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9780141185354 | English | London, United Kingdom An Inspector Calls - Wikipedia Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. An Inspector Calls, first produced in when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful revival. While holding its audience with the gripping tension of a detective thriller, it is also a philosophical play about social conscience and the crumbling of middle class values. Time and the Conways and I Have Been Here Befor An Inspector Calls, first produced in when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful revival. Time and the Conways and I Have Been Here Before belong to Priestley's 'time'plays, in which he explores the idea of precognition and pits fate against free will. The Linden Tree also challenges preconceived ideas of history when Professor Linden comes into conflict with his family about how life should be lived after the war. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published March 29th by Penguin Classics first published More Details Other Editions 3. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jul 29, Erin rated it it was amazing Shelves: from-school. I loved An Inspector Calls, especially the line "if man will not learn his lesson he will be taught in fire blood and anguish". The whole play has such a powerful message. Apr 16, Adam Crossley rated it really liked it. An Inspector Calls is great! As an IGCSE English teacher the text has excellent bits for analysis An Inspector Calls: and Other Plays maintaining a story that is accessible and interesting for G9 and G10 students. The students absolutely loved the play and many listed it as a favorite part of the course. At the ending the students were shouting out loud I'm not joking at the An Inspector Calls: and Other Plays twists. Highly recommended as a text for study. The other plays didn't move me as much and are the reason for the four star review. When ordering An Inspector Calls is great! When ordering this book for next year I will just order An Inspector Calls as a stand alone play. View 1 comment. Shelves: love-triangle-it-is-complicatedhorror-mystery-thrillerclassics-shakespeareclass-readerowned. Studies at school. Loved the mystery and the themes. Still has me wondering Aug 22, Lisa rated it really liked it Shelves: ownsocial-commentary, family-businessAn Inspector Calls: and Other Plays. Of the collection, An Inspector Calls stands head and shoulders above the rest but they are all of a high standard. Time and the Conways and I Have Been Here Before both deal with time, fate An Inspector Calls: and Other Plays free will, but of the two I definitely enjoyed the latter the most. The former An Inspector Calls: and Other Plays us meeting a family amidst some sort of party in which charades are being played, meeting the young people of the family and hearing of their hopes and dreams for the future, before a flash forward shows us what became of those hopes and dreams. An Inspector Calls is the third play in the book, in which a well-to-do family are called upon by an inspector wishing to understand the suicide of a young, working class woman. As it soon becomes clear that each and every one of the party had their own devastating effects upon the life and chances of the woman, some feel contrite and ashamed whilst others simply clamour to hush up their parts in her death to avoid any societal blame or consequences. Examining the changes going on within society after the war and the idea of community and how our actions affect others, this play was simply superb even before it got twisty. And finally, we finish with The Linden Tree in which a professor reaching retirement age is gently bullied by his family into changing his life into the one they want for him. Feb 26, John Jr. These four plays, especially An Inspector Calls, make significant contributions to the 20th-century literature of time. Time and the Conways first performed : The first act takes place on a birthday night in and introduces us to the many members of the Conway family, two of whom have just come home from the war, plus a few others. Only one character, who never sought for much and never achieves much, is reasonably content throughout. Not An Inspector Calls: and Other Plays slender as it may sound; Viktor Frankl later drew a similar lesson from the death camps. The idea is slowly revealed and elaborated in great detail among six characters over the course of three days at a country inn. An Inspector Calls : The only play in this volume that may be familiar to American and British playgoers; a National Theatre production happens to be running now on the West End in London. The action is straightforward. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. The Linden Tree : Light on plot, rich in thematic explorations of time. All these plays take place in An Inspector Calls: and Other Plays provinces, away from the big cities, and in The Linden Tree one glimpses the urbanization that would mark the second half of the 20th century: two characters have already moved to London, and by the final curtain a third has joined them. Jul 30, Caurlette rated it it was amazing. I read this play at An Inspector Calls: and Other Plays. It was a part of my course and might I add, the best part. I absolutely loved the building up of the suspense, the characters and how each of them had a story, the interconnection of the lives of all the characters, and the message behind it. Stunning work by the play write! This modern play includes class conflict and differences, the selfishness of individuals, capitalism vs communism, and greed being the root of all problems. Loved this! Recommend to all. I believe that the best part and the aspect that makes An Inspector Calls: and Other Plays love this play so much is that despite having a moral at the end, it really is like a book with stage directions. What we think normal and everyday can have such a big impact on others. May 30, Jackie rated it really liked it Shelves: 20th-centuryclassicsplays. I bought this collection four years ago because I was intrigued by An Inspector Calls but unfortunately, I was never really interested in An Inspector Calls: and Other Plays other plays, and thus it stayed on my shelves for years. Jun 29, Katie An Inspector Calls: and Other Plays rated it really liked it. And I tell you the time will soon come when, if men do not learn that lesson, then they will be taught in fire and blood and anguish". May 06, Simon rated it really liked it. Really enjoyable. Mar 26, Meg rated it it was amazing. I really like this book : I would recommend it, in some sense it can change you - into becoming a better person with your actions : and it has a good ending too. Nov 22, Elliness added it. I've finished An Inspector Calls. I don't intend to read the other stories just yet as I was reading merely to get up to speed with what my son is studying at school so that I can help him. I enjoyed the play. Its themes are thought provoking. May 25, Marnie Ava rated it really liked it Shelves: books-i-own. It was An Inspector Calls: and Other Plays enjoyable reading inspector calls again as well as reading some of his other plays which I have never heard of before. Forgot how much I love reading plays Apr 09, Rhys rated it it was amazing Shelves: five-star-books. There are four plays in this book and the first three of them are An Inspector Calls: and Other Plays. The fourth is good but to be honest I also found it a bit boring. For the simple reason that the first three have metaphysical, supernatural, moral, social and paradoxical elements. The fourth only has the moral and social input. An Inspector Calls and Other Plays by J.B. Priestley Priestley play of the same name. It is directed by Aisling Walsh[2] produced by Howard Ella [3] and stars David Thewlis [4] [5] as the titular character. The story is centred on a mysterious inspector, who investigates the socially ambitious Birling family and a dinner guest following the suicide of An Inspector Calls: and Other Plays young woman. The film is set inand follows the events of a single evening on which the wealthy Birling family is holding a dinner party to celebrate the engagement of their daughter, Sheila. The festivities are then interrupted by a visit from what is taken to be a policeman, Inspector Goole, who is investigating the recent suicide of An Inspector Calls: and Other Plays local young woman.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Stage by Stage South Bank: 1988 – 1996
    Stage by Stage South Bank: 1988 – 1996 Stage by Stage The Development of the National Theatre from 1848 Designed by Michael Mayhew Compiled by Lyn Haill & Stephen Wood With thanks to Richard Mangan and The Mander & Mitchenson Theatre Collection, Monica Sollash and The Theatre Museum The majority of the photographs in the exhibition were commissioned by the National Theatre and are part of its archive The exhibition was funded by The Royal National Theatre Foundation Richard Eyre. Photograph by John Haynes. 1988 To mark the company’s 25th birthday in Peter Hall’s last year as Director of the National October, The Queen approves the title ‘Royal’ Theatre. He stages three late Shakespeare for the National Theatre, and attends an plays (The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, and anniversary gala in the Olivier. Cymbeline) in the Cottesloe then in the Olivier, and leaves to start his own company in the The funds raised are to set up a National West End. Theatre Endowment Fund. Lord Rayne retires as Chairman of the Board and is succeeded ‘This building in solid concrete will be here by the Lady Soames, daughter of Winston for ever and ever, whatever successive Churchill. governments can do to muck it up. The place exists as a necessary part of the cultural scene Prince Charles, in a TV documentary on of this country.’ Peter Hall architecture, describes the National as ‘a way of building a nuclear power station in the September: Richard Eyre takes over as Director middle of London without anyone objecting’. of the National. 1989 Alan Bennett’s Single Spies, consisting of two A series of co-productions with regional short plays, contains the first representation on companies begins with Tony Harrison’s version the British stage of a living monarch, in a scene of Molière’s The Misanthrope, presented with in which Sir Anthony Blunt has a discussion Bristol Old Vic and directed by its artistic with ‘HMQ’.
    [Show full text]
  • King and Country: Shakespeare’S Great Cycle of Kings Richard II • Henry IV Part I Henry IV Part II • Henry V Royal Shakespeare Company
    2016 BAM Winter/Spring #KingandCountry Brooklyn Academy of Music Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board BAM, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board The Ohio State University present Katy Clark, President Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer King and Country: Shakespeare’s Great Cycle of Kings Richard II • Henry IV Part I Henry IV Part II • Henry V Royal Shakespeare Company BAM Harvey Theater Mar 24—May 1 Season Sponsor: Directed by Gregory Doran Set design by Stephen Brimson Lewis Global Tour Premier Partner Lighting design by Tim Mitchell Music by Paul Englishby Leadership support for King and Country Sound design by Martin Slavin provided by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation. Movement by Michael Ashcroft Fights by Terry King Major support for Henry V provided by Mark Pigott KBE. Major support provided by Alan Jones & Ashley Garrett; Frederick Iseman; Katheryn C. Patterson & Thomas L. Kempner Jr.; and Jewish Communal Fund. Additional support provided by Mercedes T. Bass; and Robert & Teresa Lindsay. #KingandCountry Royal Shakespeare Company King and Country: Shakespeare’s Great Cycle of Kings BAM Harvey Theater RICHARD II—Mar 24, Apr 1, 5, 8, 12, 14, 19, 26 & 29 at 7:30pm; Apr 17 at 3pm HENRY IV PART I—Mar 26, Apr 6, 15 & 20 at 7:30pm; Apr 2, 9, 23, 27 & 30 at 2pm HENRY IV PART II—Mar 28, Apr 2, 7, 9, 21, 23, 27 & 30 at 7:30pm; Apr 16 at 2pm HENRY V—Mar 31, Apr 13, 16, 22 & 28 at 7:30pm; Apr 3, 10, 24 & May 1 at 3pm ADDITIONAL CREATIVE TEAM Company Voice
    [Show full text]
  • Sample Assessment Materials NEW Issue 4
    GCSE (9-1) Drama Sample Assessment Materials Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9 - 1) in Drama (1DR0) First teaching from September 2016 First certification from June 2018 Issue 4 Edexcel, BTEC and LCCI qualifications Edexcel, BTEC and LCCI qualifications are awarded by Pearson, the UK’s largest awarding body offering academic and vocational qualifications that are globally recognised and benchmarked. For further information, please visit our qualification websites at www.edexcel.com, www.btec.co.uk or www.lcci.org.uk. Alternatively, you can get in touch with us using the details on our contact us page at qualifications.pearson.com/contactus About Pearson Pearson is the world's leading learning company, with 22,500 employees in more than 70 countries working to help people of all ages to make measurable progress in their lives through learning. We put the learner at the centre of everything we do, because wherever learning flourishes, so do people. Find out more about how we can help you and your learners at qualifications.pearson.com References to third party material made in these sample assessment materials are made in good faith. Pearson does not endorse, approve or accept responsibility for the content of materials, which may be subject to change, or any opinions expressed therein. (Material may include textbooks, journals, magazines and other publications and websites.) All information in this document is correct at time of publication. Original origami artwork: Mark Bolitho Origami photography: Pearson Education Ltd/Naki Kouyioumtzis ISBN 978 1 4469 2632 1 All the material in this publication is copyright © Pearson Education Limited 2021 Summary of Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9–1) Edexcel, BTEC and LCCI qualifications Edexcel, BTEC and LCCI qualifications are awarded by Pearson, the UK’s largest in Drama SAMs Issue 4 changes awarding body offering academic and vocational qualifications that are globally recognised and benchmarked.
    [Show full text]
  • William and Mary Theatre Main Stage Productions
    WILLIAM AND MARY THEATRE MAIN STAGE PRODUCTIONS 1926-1927 1934-1935 1941-1942 The Goose Hangs High The Ghosts of Windsor Park Gas Light Arms and the Man Family Portrait 1927-1928 The Romantic Age The School for Husbands You and I The Jealous Wife Hedda Gabler Outward Bound 1935-1936 1942-1943 1928-1929 The Unattainable Thunder Rock The Enemy The Lying Valet The Male Animal The Taming of the Shrew The Cradle Song *Bach to Methuselah, Part I Candida Twelfth Night *Man of Destiny Squaring the Circle 1929-1930 1936-1937 The Mollusc Squaring the Circle 1943-1944 Anna Christie Death Takes a Holiday Papa is All Twelfth Night The Gondoliers The Patriots The Royal Family A Trip to Scarborough Tartuffe Noah Candida 1930-1931 Vergilian Pageant 1937-1938 1944-1945 The Importance of Being Earnest The Night of January Sixteenth Quality Street Just Suppose First Lady Juno and the Paycock The Merchant of Venice The Mikado Volpone Enter Madame Liliom Private Lives 1931-1932 1938-1939 1945-1946 Sun-Up Post Road Pygmalion Berkeley Square RUR Murder in the Cathedral John Ferguson The Pirates of Penzance Ladies in Retirement As You Like It Dear Brutus Too Many Husbands 1932-1933 1939-1940 1946-1947 Outward Bound The Inspector General Arsenic and Old Lace Holiday Kind Lady Arms and the Man The Recruiting Officer Our Town The Comedy of Errors Much Ado About Nothing Hay Fever Joan of Lorraine 1933-1934 1940-1941 1947-1948 Quality Street You Can’t Take It with You The Skin of Our Teeth Hotel Universe Night Must Fall Blithe Spirit The Swan Mary of Scotland MacBeth
    [Show full text]
  • Experiments with Time Modernity Is Fascinated by Time. the Modern
    Experiments with Time Modernity is fascinated by time. The modern world has gone through profound alterations in thinking about time. Charles Lyell’s formulation of geological ‘deep time’ in the 1830s laid the foundations for modern geology and palaeontology, and therefore for thinking about the archaic status of the Earth and its life. Without Deep Time, the temporal framework which Darwinian evolution required would have been inconceivable. In the 1840s, the imposition of a standardized national (and international) ‘Railway Time’ became necessary in order for trains to run on time: without a standard and comprehensible railway transport system, the global reach of the British Empire would have been significantly foreshortened. The postulation of a ‘fourth dimension’ in the 1880s directly informed Einstein’s theories of space-time. The discovery by Edwin Hubble in 1929 of galactic red shift, led to the big bang theory of the origin of the universe, and to speculations as to whether its expansion would increase indefinitely and thus lead, in accordance with the Second Law of Thermodynamics, to the inevitable heat death of the universe, black, frozen and remote; or, whether gravity would eventually overwhelm all other forces, making the universe contract back in on itself culminating in a satisfyingly apocalyptic ‘big crunch’. Philosophically and culturally, the work of Nordau and Spengler on forms of degeneration and decline, and Bergson on time- flux, and of McTaggart and Broad on the metaphysics of time are very significant. It is therefore understandable, perhaps, that in Time and Western Man (1927), Wyndham Lewis was to criticize what he saw as the Western intelligentsia’s misguided obsession with temporality.
    [Show full text]
  • Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9
    GCSE (9-1) English Literature Sample Assessment Materials Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9 - 1) in English Literature (1ET0) First teaching from September 2015 First certification from June 2017 Issue 2 Edexcel, BTEC and LCCI qualifications Edexcel, BTEC and LCCI qualifications are awarded by Pearson, the UK’s largest awarding body offering academic and vocational qualifications that are globally recognised and benchmarked. For further information, please visit our qualification websites at www.edexcel.com, www.btec.co.uk or www.lcci.org.uk. Alternatively, you can get in touch with us using the details on our contact us page at qualifications.pearson.com/contactus About Pearson Pearson is the world's leading learning company, with 22,500 employees in more than 70 countries working to help people of all ages to make measurable progress in their lives through learning. We put the learner at the centre of everything we do, because wherever learning flourishes, so do people. Find out more about how we can help you and your learners at qualifications.pearson.com References to third party material made in these sample assessment materials are made in good faith. Pearson does not endorse, approve or accept responsibility for the content of materials, which may be subject to change, or any opinions expressed therein. (Material may include textbooks, journals, magazines and other publications and websites.) All information in this document is correct at the time of publication. Original origami artwork: Mark Bolitho Origami photography: Pearson Education Ltd / Naki Kouyioumtzis ISBN 978 1 446 91438 0 All the material in this publication is copyright © Pearson Education Limited 2021 Summary of Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9-1) in English Edexcel, BTEC and LCCI qualifications Literature SAMs Issue 2 changes Edexcel, BTEC and LCCI qualifications are awarded by Pearson, the UK’s largest awarding body offering academic and vocational qualifications that are globally recognised and benchmarked.
    [Show full text]
  • HTC AIC Program
    Season 2012 AN INSPECTOR CALLS HTC Artspace Exhibition This year the Artspace celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the Heidelberg Theatre Company, featuring archival posters, programmes, photos and newspaper articles, mapping the history of the theatre and highlighting the wonderful plays presented over the years - as well as a display of interesting and beautiful costumes on the Mezzanine. The display, including costumes, for our first play this year has attracted great interest and comment The display for our second play of 2012 covers the third decade of the Company, the 1970s. These documents have been collected by various members of the theatre over many years and we thank them for being aware of the importance of preserving our history. We hope you enjoy the journey with us through the sixty memorable years of Heidelberg Theatre Company HEIDELBERG THEATRE COMPANY (HTC) BOOKINGS 03 9457 4117 ENQUIRIES 03 9455 3039 EMAIL [email protected] WEB www.htc.org.au HTC is a member of the Victorian Drama League. HTC acknowledges financial assistance from the City of Banyule. 2 HEIDELBERG THEATRE COMPANY 3 May - 193 May 2012 About the author J.B. Priestley was born in Bradford, in England’s industrial midlands. He left school at age sixteen to work for a local wool merchant, and in 1914 enlisted in the army. In his subsequent writing, Priestley often drew on his wartime experiences and memories of pre-war England. In 1919, Priestley spent three years at Cambridge, taking honours in English literature, modern history, and political science. As a fiction writer, he became a household name with ‘The Good Companions’ (1929), a comic novel about an itinerant group of music-hall entertainers that sold almost a million copies in hardcover.
    [Show full text]
  • An Inspector Calls Is Recommended for the Artistic Team Students in Grade 8 Director……………………….JIM MEZON and Higher
    An Inspector by J.B. Priestley Calls ONNECTIONS Shaw Festival CStudy Guide The Shaw Story 2 The Players 3 The Story 4 Who’s Who 5 The Playwright 6-7 Director’s Notes 8 Designer’s Notes 9 Production History 10 World of the Play 11-15 Did You Know? 16 Say What? 17 Sources 18 Activities 18-29 Response Sheet 30 THE SHAW STORY MANDATE The Shaw Festival is the only theatre in the world which exclusively focuses on plays by Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, including plays written or about the period of Shaw’s lifetime (1856 – 1950). The Shaw Festival’s mandate also includes: • Uncovered Gems – digging up undiscovered theatrical treasures, or plays which were considered major works when they were written but which have since been unjustly neglected • American Classics – we continue to celebrate the best of American theatre • Musicals – rarely-performed musical treats from the period of our mandate are re- discovered and returned to the stage WHAT MAKES • Canadian Work – to allow us to hear and promote our own stories, our own points SHAW SPECIAL of view about the mandate period. MEET THE COMPANY — OUR ENSEMBLE • Our Actors: All Shaw performers contribute to the sense of ensemble, much like the players in an orchestra. Often, smaller parts are played by actors who are leading performers in their own right, but in our “orchestra,” they support the central action helping to create a density of experiences that are both subtle and informative. • Our Designers: Every production that graces the Shaw Festival stages is built “from scratch,” from an original design.
    [Show full text]
  • Jacquetta Hawkes - Basic Biographical Information
    Jacquetta Hawkes - Basic biographical information Item Type Encyclopaedia article Authors Finn, Christine Citation Finn C (2018) Jacquetta Hawkes - Basic biographical information. In: Smith C (Ed) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Switzerland, Springer Nature AG. Download date 29/09/2021 09:15:35 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10454/18315 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018 Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology 10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_2660-1 Jacquetta Hawkes Christine Finn1 ​ ( 1)Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia Christine Finn Email: [email protected] ​ ​ Basic Biographical Information J essie Jacquetta Hawkes (nee Hopkins) also known as Jacquetta Priestley was born on August 5, 1910, in Cambridge, UK. Her father was the Nobel prize-winning biochemist and Trinity don, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, and her mother, Jessie Ann, introduced her to museums. After an early declaration that she wanted to be an archaeologist, in 1929 she was one of the first to read for the new Cambridge degree of archaeology and anthropology. She left Newnham College with a first-class degree and an invitation to dig with Dorothy Garrod at Mount Carmel in Palestine. Her experience there, exposing a Neanderthal skeleton, had a marked effect on her, and she returned to this discovery in her prose and poetry. By then she had met another promising archaeologist, Christopher Hawkes, both working on a Roman site near Colchester. In 1933 they married and began what appeared to be a union of mutual interests, with a home in North London. Their only child, Nicolas, was born in 1937, and their first book together, Prehistoric Britain, was published in ​ ​ 1943.
    [Show full text]
  • January 2014
    Research Archives Acquisitions List - January 2014 Journals 1 ACOR Newsletter 25:1 (2013) J/ACORN/25:1 2 Aegyptus 89 (2009) J/AEG/89 3 Aegyptus 90 (2010) J/AEG/90 4 ArcNews 35:4 (2013-2014) J/ArcNews/35:4 5 Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 370 (2013) J/BASOR/370 6 Bulletin of the Asia Institute 23 (2009) J/BAINS/23 7 Cahiers Caribéens d'Égyptologie 17 (2013) J/CCEG/17 8 Chronique d'Égypte 88:176 (2013) J/CdÉ/88:176 9 Die Verwaltung Nubiens im Neuen Reich 18 (2013) J/MER/18 10 Iraq 75 (2013) J/IRQ/75 11 Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin 58 (2013) J/NEAS/58 12 Old Testament Abstracts 36:3 (2013) J/OTA/36:3 13 Orientalia 82:2 (2013) J/OrNS/82:2 14 Palestine Exploration Quarterly 145:4 (2013) J/PEQ/145:4 15 Phoenix 59:1 (2013) J/PHO/59:1 16 Res Antiquitatis 3 (2012) J/ResAntiq/3 17 Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archéologie Orientale 106 (2012) J/RA/106 18 Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archéologie Orientale 107 (2013) J/RA/107 02/25/2014 Page 1 of 13 19 Revue du Louvre 63:5 (2013) J/RL/63:5 20 Saudi Aramco World 65:1 (2014) J/AWM/65:1 21 The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 49 (2012) J/BASP/49 22 Tyndale Bulletin 64:2 (2013) J/TynBul/64:2 23 Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 140:2 (2013) J/ZÄS/140:2 Monographs, Pamphlets, and Series 24 Götter und Mischwesen in Syrien und Westmesopotamien in der Frühbronzezeit.
    [Show full text]
  • Download Date 03/10/2021 02:12:06
    Alive and Kicking! J.B. Priestley and the University of Bradford Item Type Article Authors Cullingford, Alison Citation Cullingford A (2016) Alive and Kicking! J.B. Priestley and the University of Bradford. The Journal of the J.B. Priestley Society.17: 46-55. Rights (c) 2016 Cullingford A. Full-text reproduced with author's permission. Download date 03/10/2021 02:12:06 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10454/11433 The University of Bradford Institutional Repository http://bradscholars.brad.ac.uk This work is made available online in accordance with publisher policies. Please refer to the repository record for this item and our Policy Document available from the repository home page for further information. To see the final version of this work please visit the publisher’s website. Access to the published online version may require a subscription. Citation: Cullingford A (2016) Alive and Kicking! J.B. Priestley and the University of Bradford. The Journal of the J.B. Priestley Society.17: 46-55. Copyright statement: © 2016 Cullingford A. Full-text reproduced with author’s permission. JBP and the Uni article Bradford’s University celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2016. What better time therefore to share some stories of the links between the University and the city’s famous son? New university, old story The University of Bradford came into existence on the 18 October 1966 when the Queen signed its Royal Charter. J.B. Priestley was then 72. The University was not one of the new ‘plateglass’ universities that sprang up on greenfield sites during the 1960s boom in higher education, such as York, Sussex and East Anglia.
    [Show full text]
  • J. B. Priestley in the Theater of Time
    Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange Faculty Publications English 4-2012 J. B. Priestley in the Theater of Time Jesse Matz Kenyon College, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/english_publications Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Matz, Jesse, "J. B. Priestley in the Theater of Time" (2012). Modernism/Modernity 19(2): 321-342. Faculty Publications. Paper 13. https://digital.kenyon.edu/english_publications/13 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the English at Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. -%3ULHVWOH\LQWKH7KHDWHURI7LPH Jesse Matz Modernism/modernity, Volume 19, Number 2, April 2012, pp. 321-342 (Article) 3XEOLVKHGE\7KH-RKQV+RSNLQV8QLYHUVLW\3UHVV DOI: 10.1353/mod.2012.0040 For additional information about this article http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mod/summary/v019/19.2.matz.html Access provided by Kenyon College (20 Oct 2014 09:56 GMT) J. B. Priestley in the Theater of Time Jesse Matz At 10:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 17, 1963, J. B. Priestley appeared on Monitor, the BBC’s fortnightly arts program, to modernism / discuss a work in progress. It was Man and Time (1964), his modernity volume nineteen, “personal essay exploring the eternal riddle,” which surveys ways number two, time has been reckoned throughout history, time’s challenges pp 321–342. © 2012 to philosophy, science, and the arts, its character in “this age,” the johns hopkins and, finally, Priestley’s own fascination: “multiple time,” in which university press past, present, and future become at once available to human understanding.
    [Show full text]