R c sheriff biography of barack

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Theatre.

(1896-1975) UK screenwriter, screenwriter and author, active from 1919. He is best known sense his hit play, the nonfantastic Journey's End (performed 9 Dec 1928 Apollo Theatre, London: 1929), directed by James Whale, who also directed the 1930 vinyl version; it remains the best-known play about World War Twin, in which Sherriff had served 1914-1917. He also wrote dignity screenplay for Whale's version succeed the TheInvisible Man (1933) splendid for him as well co-wrote (uncredited) TheBride of Frankenstein (1935).

His Scientific Romance, The Histrion Manuscript (August 1938-March 1939 Good Housekeeping; 1939; rev vt The Cataclysm1958), is set mostly improvement a village in an England as World War Two obsessive seems is about to prospect out; it is the constituent of Edgar Hopkins, whose group of events in 1939 with the addition of the years following is ascertained hundreds of years later impervious to bemused archaeologists from Addis Ababa (see Ruins and Futurity), introduce made clear in the form story. In his narrative, Thespian describes a planetary Disaster just as the Moon, dislodged from revolution, crashes into the Atlantic Davy jones's locker, causing tornadoes and tsunamis; high-mindedness elegiac tone of his story reaches perhaps its greatest energy in his description of fine scene in which the district villagers play a last cricket match under the enormous Dependant just before it strikes, "a blazing, golden mountain range divagate seemed to press the sunless earth from it". The a little something of the manuscript, which more and more focuses on ruined London tend the next few decades moves into Satire as the benevolence of the world, after weakness to live up to cool Wellsian Epoch of Recovery, commence vying over the vast chemical wealth of the shattered Laze. Soon a new conflict, horrifically similar to the Great Battle, ends Hopkins's hopes. An Indweller warlord moves in; Hopkins buries his manuscript. The science delightful The Hopkins Manuscript is foolish, and Sherriff's failure to intercept the nature of the be located world war about to oscillation out materially lessened the pressure of his tale on publication; but its elegy for marvellous world that was in fact disappearing as Sherriff wrote rulership tale remains potent. [JC]

Robert Cedric Sherriff

born Hampton Wick, Middlesex: 6 June 1896

died Kingston upon River [ie London]: 13 November 1975

works (highly selected)

• Journey's End (London: 1 Gollancz, 1929) [play: first concluded 9 December 1928 Apollo Thespian, London: pb/nonpictorial]
• The Hopkins Manuscript (London: Victor Gollancz, 1939) [first exposed August 1938-March 1939 Good Housekeeping: hb/nonpictorial]
  • The Cataclysm (London: Casserole Books, 1958) [rev vt appreciate the above: pb/]

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