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An Inspector Calls and Other Plays by JB Priestley

August 22, 2019 by TheShitWizard Leave a Comment

An Inspector Calls and Other Plays contains, as you might have guessed, An Inspector Calls as well as Time and the Conways, I Have Been Here Before, and the Linden Tree. Of the collection, An Inspector Calls stands head and shoulders above the rest but they are all of a high standard. Time and the Conways and I Have Been Here Before both deal with time, fate and free will, but of the two I definitely enjoyed the latter the most. The former sees us […]

a man has to make his own way—has to look after himself—and his family, too, of course, when he has one—and so long as he does that he won’t come to much harm.

An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley

March 20, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Like any mystery novel or play, there’s a danger in spending too much time explaining much about it. And this one is little different. On the one hand this is a quite successful and brilliant play in a lot of ways. It not only creates an effective and engaging dramatic scene, but it also completely complicates and subverts a lot of the same tropes and conventions it relies on to tell the story. It’s a lot like Clue and The Mousetrap in this way, and […]

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