"Summer Day's Dream: A Play in Two Acts"

Title"Summer Day's Dream: A Play in Two Acts"
Year for Search1950
AuthorsPriestley, J[ohn] B[oynton](1894-1984)
Tertiary AuthorsPriestley, J. B.
Secondary TitleThe Plays of J.B. Priestley. Volume III
Pagination403-76 76 with a note by Priestley on xiii-xiv
Date Published1950
PublisherWilliam Heinemann
Place PublishedLondon
KeywordsEnglish author, Male author
Annotation

The play is set in midsummer 1975 after an atomic catastrophe which has resulted in England reverting to a simple agrarian life that is presented as a eutopia.

Info Notes

First performed September 8, 1949, at the St. Martin's Theatre, London.

Holding Institutions

LLL

Author Note

(1894-1984)

Full Text

1950 Priestley, J[ohn] B[oynton] (1894-1984). “Summer Day’s Dream: A Play in Two Acts.” In The Plays of J.B. Priestley. Volume III (London: William Heinemann, 1950), 403-76 with a note by Priestley on xiii-xiv. First performed September 8, 1949, at the St. Martin’s Theatre, London. LLL

The play is set in midsummer 1975 after an atomic catastrophe which has resulted in England reverting to a simple agrarian life that is presented as a eutopia.