Now More Than EverUniversity of Texas Press, 2000 - 123 էջ Over the course of his career, British writer Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) shifted away from elitist social satires and an atheistic outlook toward greater concern for the masses and the use of religious terms and imagery. This change in Huxley's thinking underlies the previously unpublished play Now More Than Ever. Written in 1932-1933 just after Brave New World, Now More Than Ever is a response to the social, economic, and political upheavals of its time. Huxley's protagonist is an idealistic financier whose grandiose schemes for controlling the means of production drive him to swindling and finally to suicide. His fate allows Huxley to expose the evils he perceives in free-market capitalism while pleading the case for national economic planning and the rationalization of Britain's industrial base. This volume contains the full text of Now More Than Ever, which was believed to be lost until 1976, when a copy was found at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin. A "thinker's play" that has never been produced on stage, it is the last previously unpublished piece of Huxley's major writings and immensely important to understanding his development as a writer. The editors of this volume have annotated the play for contemporary readers. Their introduction sets the play in the context of Huxley's intellectual life. |
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... followed the writing of Now More Than Ever he experimented with breathing exercises , the Hay Diet , the Alexander Technique , and other reconstructive regimes , be- fore concluding the overhaul of his body and mind by committing him ...
... followed the Napoleonic Wars - Malthus argued that it was due to overproduc- tion which had caused stagnation of output and thus unemployment 56 —the most obvious contemporary sources were economists such as Keynes , 57 Henry Clay ...
... followed by SIR THOMAS LUPTON2 . LUPTON is a gross , red - faced , greasily prosperous - looking man in the fifties . FOOTMAN : Mr. Lidgate will be down in a moment , sir . I'll go and tell him you're here . ( LUPTON crosses the room ...