Spacetime Inn
| Title | Spacetime Inn |
| Year for Search | 1932 |
| Authors | Britton, Lionel [Erskine Nimmo](1887-1971) |
| Pagination | 103 pp. |
| Date Published | 1932 |
| Publisher | G. P. Putnam |
| Place Published | London & New York |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | 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. |
| Info Notes | The author’s papers are held at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. |
| Holding Institutions | NNU, PU |
| Author Note | (1887-1917) |
| Full Text | 1932 Britton, Lionel [Erskine Nimmo] (1887-1971). Spacetime Inn. London & New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 103 pp. The author’s papers are held at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. NNU, PU 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. |
