An Inspector Calls and Other Plays (Penguin Modern Classics)

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If one leaves aside the fantasy/ science fiction premise, this play is rather insipid to read. But one can easily appreciate the power it would have had on stage when it was staged in 1937. Again, time makes its entrance here in the form of history, on which Professor Linden has his own refreshingly different views. An Inspector Calls at The Royal Exchange 1986". www.abouttheartists.com . Retrieved 20 January 2023.

When the inspector visits the Birling's house she says "an Inspector's called." She is asked to stay up late during the play by Mrs Birling to make tea for the Birling family. The young girl who allegorically represents the working class in a capitalist society; she doesn't have any lines in the play. All Birling characters behaved in ways that completely altered her life for the worst, culminating in her suicide by drinking some strong disinfectant. The inspector reads her diary before interrogating the Birlings. She is described as being young and pretty, with dark eyes. She also changes her name from Eva Smith to Daisy Renton. Morley, Sheridan (25 September 1992). "Stop messing about". The Spectator. p.53. Archived from the original on 5 October 2015 . Retrieved 4 October 2015.

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A large number of scenes were also filmed at Scampston Hall, near Malton, and in the market town of Malton. [ citation needed] The exterior is Attingham House. [ citation needed] After the war Priestley continued his writing, and his work invariably provoked thought, and his views were always expressed in his blunt Yorkshire style. Saltaire is filming location for TV adaptation of An Inspector Calls". Telegraph & Argus. 20 February 2015 . Retrieved 9 March 2015. in Schools Catalogue 2023–24, 3700 in Education Catalogue 2023–24 and 499 in UK Teen Autumn 2023 Format When the family talk over what has happened, they begin to question whether their visitor was a real police inspector. Mr Birling makes a phone call to the chief constable, who confirms that there is no Inspector Goole on the force. With a further call to the infirmary confirming that no recent cases of suicide have been reported, the family surmise that the inspector was a fraud and that they have been the victims of a hoax. Gerald and the elder Birlings celebrate in relief, but Eric and Sheila continue to feel guilt. The phone then rings and the police tell them that a young woman has just died in the infirmary in a suspected suicide, and that they are on their way to question the family. The inspector's identity is left unexplained (though a clue is in the name), but it is clear that the family's confessions over the course of the evening have all been true, and that public disgrace will soon befall them.

I Have Been Here Before', another 'time' play, is based on a theory of Time and Human Life as a recurring cycle. During a weekend in the Yorkshire dales, Dr Görtler, a mysterious refugee, tries to save a rich couple and a young schoolmaster from a tragic course of action.

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