The play is a midsummernight fantasy - eight people disappear into a magical wood to live a different life for one night. When they come back they see themselves and others very differently...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
... dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.' JOANNA. For 'dear Brutus' we are to read 'dear audience' I suppose? PURDIE. You have it. JOANNA. Meaning that we have the power to shape ourselves? PURDIE. We ...
J. M. Barrie's fantasy drama Dear Brutus from 1917 depicts the characters' transition through alternate universes and eventual return to the real world.
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Unlike much of his dramatic oeuvre, J. M. Barrie's play Dear Brutus has a number of striking parallels with the author's most enduring work, the children's classic Peter Pan.
The scene is a darkened room, which the curtain reveals so stealthily that if there was a mouse on the stage it is there still.
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Dear Brutus: A Comedy in Three Acts
The scene is a darkened room, which the curtainreveals so stealthily that if there was a mouse on the stage it is there still. Our object is to catcour two chief characters unawares; they are Darkness and Light...
Unlike much of his dramatic oeuvre, J. M. Barrie's play Dear Brutus has a number of striking parallels with the author's most enduring work, the children's classic Peter Pan.