Biographical Sketch of David Hare (Classic Reprint)

Biographical Sketch of David Hare (Classic Reprint)
Author: Peary Chand Mittra
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2016-06-21
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781332612567

Excerpt from Biographical Sketch of David Hare Dr. George Smith has kindly communicated the following particulars from Mr. Rust of the Union Bank of Scotland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Blue Touch Paper

The Blue Touch Paper
Author: David Hare
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2015-08-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0571294359

When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written five of them. Yet he was born in 1947 into an anonymous suburban street in Hastings. It is a world he believes to be as completely vanished as Victorian England. Now in his first panoramic work of memoir, ending as Margaret Thatcher comes to power in 1979, David Hare describes his childhood, his Anglo-Catholic education and his painful apprenticeship to the trade of dramatist. He sets the progress of his own life against the history of a time in which faith in hierarchy, deference, religion, the empire and finally politics all withered away. Only belief in private virtue remains. In his customarily dazzling prose and with great warmth and humour, David Hare explores how so radical a shift could have occurred, and how it is reflected in his own lifelong engagement with two disparate art forms - film and theatre. In The Blue Touch Paper David Hare describes a life of trial and error: both how he became a writer and the high price he and those around him paid for that decision.

Plenty

Plenty
Author: David Hare
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1978
Genre: Conformity
ISBN: 9780573619182

Susan Traherne returns to her home in post-war Britain haunted by her experiences as a resistance fighter in occupied France.

The Hours / Mrs. Dalloway

The Hours / Mrs. Dalloway
Author: Michael Cunningham
Publisher: Picador
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2022-05-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250852684

Michael Cunningham brings together his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel with the masterpiece that inspired it, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. In The Hours, the acclaimed author Michael Cunningham draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf and the story of her novel, Mrs. Dalloway, to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. In this edition, Cunningham brings his own Pulitzer Prize–winning novel together with Woolf’s masterpiece, which has long been hailed as a groundbreaking work of literary fiction and one of the finest novels written in English. The two novels, published side by side with a new introduction by Cunningham, display the extent of their affinity, and each illuminates new facets of the other in this joint volume. In his introduction, Cunningham re-creates the wonderment of his first encounter with Mrs. Dalloway at fifteen—as he writes, “I was lost. I was gone. I never recovered.” With this edition, Cunningham allows us to disappear into the world of Woolf and into his own brilliant mind.

Murmuring Judges

Murmuring Judges
Author: David Hare
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0571294480

A young lawyer's involvement in her first case leads her through a criminal justice system - police, courts and prisons - which is cracking at the seams.Murmuring Judges is the second play in David Hare's highly acclaimed trilogy about British institutions. Racing Demon, which won four awards as Play of the Year in 1990, was the first part of the trilogy and examined the Church. The Absence of War, a play about the Labour Party, completed the trilogy.