Hindle Wakes - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... HINDLE WAKES ACT I SCENE 1 The scene is triangular, representing a corner of the living-room kitchen of No. 137, Burnley Road, Hindle, a house rented at about Is. Gd. a week. In the left-hand wall, low down, there is a door leading to the scullery. In the same wall, but further away from the spectator, is a window looking on to the backyard. A dresser stands in front of the window. About half-way up the right-hand wall is the door leading to the hall or passage. Nearer, against the same wall, a high cupboard for china and crockery. The fireplace is not visible, being in one of the walls not represented. However, down in the L. corner of the stage is an arm-chair, which stands by the hearth. In the middle of the room is a square table, with chairs on each side. The room is cheerful and comfortable. It is nine o'clock on a warm August evening. Through the window can be seen the darkening sky, as the blind is not drawn. Against the sky an outline 9 of roof-tops and mill chimneys. The only light is the dim twilight from the open window. Thunder is in the air. When the curtain rises Christopher Hawthorn, a decent, white-bearded man of nearly sixty, is sitting in the arm-chair smoking a pipe. Mrs. Hawthorn, a keen, sharpfaced woman of fifty-five, is standing gazing out of the window. There is a flash of lightning and a rumble of thunder far away. mrs. Hawthorn. It's passing over. There'll be no rain. Christopher. Ay! We could do with some rain. [There is a flash of lightning. Christopher. Pull down the blind and light the gas. mrs. Hawthorn. What for? Christopher. It's more cosy-like with the gas. Mrs. Hawthorn. You're not afraid of the lightning? Christopher. I want to look at that railway guide. mrs. Hawthorn. What's the good? We've looked...
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About the Author:
Stanley Houghton (1881-1913) was born in Ashton-upon-Mersey, Sale, Cheshire and went into his father's cotton business where he worked until the success of Hindle Wakes in 1912 allowed him to finally achieve his ambition to become a professional writer. He died just a year later of meningitis.
Review:
"An extraordinary piece impossible to watch without feeling profound respect for playwright Stanley Houghton and the message he conveys." What’s On Stage (5 stars)
"A fascinating look into a rarely considered part of our national history and a fitting way to celebrate [the play’s] 100th anniversary." The Good Review
"In its day Hindle Wakes must have been astonishing, as groundbreaking as A Doll’s House and there is still something rather marvellous about its attacks upon the sexual double standard’" Telegraph
"Houghton's play belongs to an extraordinary period in British drama And who is to say that, 100 years after Hindle Wakes, we still don't live in a world that has one law for sexually adventurous men and another for women?" Guardian
"Even in these permissive times, the controversy that must have surrounded the play when originally performed in 1912 is clear, and it is impossible to watch without feeling profound respect for playwright Stanley Houghton and the message he conveys." What’s On Stage (5 stars)
"Houghton's script is well observed and awake to new and untraced boundaries between classes which had emerged with the suddenness of industrial progress. His work owes a debt to Ibsen, particularly in its then-controversial sexual frankness and proto-feminism, as well as to Chekhov in its neat balancing of the comic and the dramatically truthful." Time Out (London)
"An extraordinary piece... impossible to watch without feeling profound respect for playwright Stanley Houghton and the message he conveys." – What’s On Stage (5 stars)
"A fascinating look into a rarely considered part of our national history... and a fitting way to celebrate [the play’s] 100th anniversary." – The Good Review
"In its day Hindle Wakes must have been astonishing, as groundbreaking as A Doll’s House – and there is still something rather marvellous about its attacks upon the sexual “double standard’" – Telegraph
"Houghton's play belongs to an extraordinary period in British drama... And who is to say that, 100 years after Hindle Wakes, we still don't live in a world that has one law for sexually adventurous men and another for women?" – Guardian
"Even in these permissive times, the controversy that must have surrounded the play when originally performed in 1912 is clear, and it is impossible to watch without feeling profound respect for playwright Stanley Houghton and the message he conveys." – What’s On Stage (5 stars)
"Houghton's script is well observed and awake to new and untraced boundaries between classes which had emerged with the suddenness of industrial progress. His work owes a debt to Ibsen, particularly in its then-controversial sexual frankness and proto-feminism, as well as to Chekhov in its neat balancing of the comic and the dramatically truthful." – Time Out (London)
"A fascinating look into a rarely considered part of our national history and a fitting way to celebrate [the play’s] 100th anniversary." The Good Review
"In its day Hindle Wakes must have been astonishing, as groundbreaking as A Doll’s House and there is still something rather marvellous about its attacks upon the sexual double standard’" Telegraph
"Houghton's play belongs to an extraordinary period in British drama And who is to say that, 100 years after Hindle Wakes, we still don't live in a world that has one law for sexually adventurous men and another for women?" Guardian
"Even in these permissive times, the controversy that must have surrounded the play when originally performed in 1912 is clear, and it is impossible to watch without feeling profound respect for playwright Stanley Houghton and the message he conveys." What’s On Stage (5 stars)
"Houghton's script is well observed and awake to new and untraced boundaries between classes which had emerged with the suddenness of industrial progress. His work owes a debt to Ibsen, particularly in its then-controversial sexual frankness and proto-feminism, as well as to Chekhov in its neat balancing of the comic and the dramatically truthful." Time Out (London)
"An extraordinary piece... impossible to watch without feeling profound respect for playwright Stanley Houghton and the message he conveys." – What’s On Stage (5 stars)
"A fascinating look into a rarely considered part of our national history... and a fitting way to celebrate [the play’s] 100th anniversary." – The Good Review
"In its day Hindle Wakes must have been astonishing, as groundbreaking as A Doll’s House – and there is still something rather marvellous about its attacks upon the sexual “double standard’" – Telegraph
"Houghton's play belongs to an extraordinary period in British drama... And who is to say that, 100 years after Hindle Wakes, we still don't live in a world that has one law for sexually adventurous men and another for women?" – Guardian
"Even in these permissive times, the controversy that must have surrounded the play when originally performed in 1912 is clear, and it is impossible to watch without feeling profound respect for playwright Stanley Houghton and the message he conveys." – What’s On Stage (5 stars)
"Houghton's script is well observed and awake to new and untraced boundaries between classes which had emerged with the suddenness of industrial progress. His work owes a debt to Ibsen, particularly in its then-controversial sexual frankness and proto-feminism, as well as to Chekhov in its neat balancing of the comic and the dramatically truthful." – Time Out (London)
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230457895
- ISBN 13 9781230457895
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages24
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