@booklet {10387, title = {Spacetime Inn}, year = {1932}, month = {1932}, pages = {103 pp.}, publisher = {G. P. Putnam}, address = {London \& New York}, abstract = {

Play set outside of time with two cockney men who have won the \“sweep\” together with Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw, Dr. Johnson, Karl Marx, Napoleon, Queen Victoria, the Queen of Sheba, and Eve. Napoleon and the two queens are presented as having extremely narrow views of the world. The others are somewhat caricatured, but there is serious debate, particularly between Shaw and Marx with occasional involvement by Shakespeare and Johnson, over whether and/or how to improve the lot of men like the two cockneys. Eve presents a eutopia of the simple enjoyment of life.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Lionel [Erskine Nimmo] Britton (1887-1971)} } @booklet {10386, title = {Hunger and Love}, year = {1931}, note = {

U.S. ed. New York: Harper \& Brothers, 1931, with an \“Introduction\” by Bertrand Russell (vii-x). 623 pp.

}, month = {1931}, pages = {705 pp.}, publisher = {Putnam}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The novel is mostly concerned with the trials and tribulations of its main protagonist, an intelligent but poor man, and is an attack on the dystopian of the contemporary capitalist order. But the novel also suggests, without going into detail, that a literal unification of the human race is necessary to being about a better life. As Bertrand Russel puts it in his \“Introduction,\” \"It may be that the complete organic unification of the human race, which Mr. Britton regards as the ideal, is the only way in which a scientific civilisation can survive. It is, at any rate, practically certain that it cannot survive while the anarchism of private profit\” [x]. The author says that the theory developed in Hunger and Love is presented in his plays Brain: A Play of the Whole Earth. London: G. P. Putnam\’s Sons, 1930 and Animal Ideas: A Dramatic Symphony of the Human in the Universe. London: Putman, 1935. 134 pp.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Lionel [Erskine Nimmo] Britton (1887-1971)} } @booklet {753, title = {Brain: A Play of the Whole Earth}, year = {1930}, month = {1930}, pages = {129 pp.}, publisher = {G. P. Putnam{\textquoteright}s Sons}, address = {London \& New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia. A giant brain built in the Sahara comes to control the entire world followed by a catastrophe when a Dark Star that the Brain cannot control destroys the Earth. The play opens with a discussion, between the Librarian of the British Museum, a conservative, and a professor of philosophy, who is more open to alternatives, of a manuscript, obviously Britton\’s Hunger and Love (1931), and why it will be difficult to get it published.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Lionel [Erskine Nimmo] Britton (1887-1971)} }