Granville-Barker: Plays One - (World Classics) (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Harley Granville Barker was the most brilliant British director of the first quarter of the twentieth century. His best known plays, including <i>Waste</i> (banned by the Lord Chamberlain), were written as contributions to his Company's repertoire of provocative modern drama for a national theatre. <p/>In <i>The Voysey Inheritance</i>, a young man deals with the discovery that the inheritence due to him has been mismanaged by his own parents; <i>Waste</i> tells the story of a young man's whose life has been thrown away; <i>The Secret Life</i> is a portrait of spendthrift, indolent Edwardian aristocracy; <i>Rococo</i> is a one-act farce set in a vicarage and <i>Vote by Ballot</i> shows the teething troubles of mass democracy. <p/>This is a companion to <i>Harley Granville Plays Two</i>, which contains <i>The Marrying of Ann Leete</i>; <i>The Madras House</i>; <i>His Majesty</i> and <i>Farewell to the Theatre</i>.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Harley Granville Barker </b>'s plays include <i>Waste;</i> <i>The Madras House</i>, first produced at Duke of York's Theatre, 1910; <i>The Secret Life</i> and<i> His Majesty</i>, which received its first production at the Edinburgh International Festival by Orange Tree Theatre Company in 1992.
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