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 This change in Huxley's thinking underlies the previously unpublished play Now More Than Ever.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 A "thinker's play" that has never been produced on stage, it is the last previously unpublished piece of Huxley's major writings and immensely important to understanding his development as a writer.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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... scene 1. The action takes place in the sparsely furnished par- lor of Clough's small house in the north London borough of Camden Town . Walter Clough confesses to Joan Lidgate : Loving one's neighbour is heroic . Heroic because it's so ...
... SCENE I. Hyde Park , London , three weeks later . SCENE 2. The library at Monmouth House , six weeks later . Act III SCENE I. Walter Clough's living room , Camden Town , London , one month later . SCENE 2. The library at Monmouth House ...
... scene people are continually strolling up and down the two paths on either side of the shrubberies , form- ing groups round the HYMN SINGERS or the LUNATIC or CLOUGH , then drifting on again . The singing is heard before the curtain ...