Never So Good (NHB Modern Plays)
A fascinating portrait of Harold Macmillan in an epic play about the decline of British fortunes in the middle of the twentieth century. Set against a back-drop of fading Empire, war, the Suez crisis, vintage champagne, adultery and vicious Tory politics at the Ritz, Never So Good paints the portrait of a brilliant, witty but complex man, at times comically and, in the end, tragically out of kilter with his times. Harold Macmillan, the Eton-educated idealist who rushed, with Homer's Iliad under his arm, to do his duty in the Grenadier Guards, is tormented by the harsh experiences of war and an unhappy marriage. His career in the 1930s is bloc…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78001-361-9
- EAN: 9781780013619
- Produktnummer: 16931343
- Verlag: Nick Hern Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 106 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 383 KB
- Sonstiges: Ab 12 - 12 J.
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