A Quick Guide to “An Inspector Calls”
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It is a three-act play, and the entire action takes just one night in the year 1912. The Birling family happens to be the focus of the play, and it revolves around them. They are a rich middle-class family.
The Birlings live in a luxurious and comfortable house in Brumley, a big industrial city in the north Midlands.
One day a man visits this family. The visitor calls himself Inspector Goole. He has come there to question the Birlings about the suicide of a working woman named Eva Smith.
It transpires that the dead working woman was also known as Daisy Renton.
Inspector Goole asks them several questions. After the question answer session a kind of hint is found that the Birlings are responsible for the young woman’s exploitation and abandonment.
They are blamed of socially ruining the young woman. Owing to her sufferings through the hands of the Birlings Eva Smith is supposed to have committed suicide.
“An Inspector Calls” continued to be considered as a part of the repertory of classic drawing room theatre for a fairly long time, but at the same time it was also assessed as a critique of the hypocrite Victorian English society.
A Quick Guide to “An Inspector Calls”
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Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Major Characters
Chapter Four: Critical Response
Chapter Five: Staging and Performances
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Chapter One: Introduction
An Inspector Calls
is said to be one of the best classics of the mid 20th century theatre. The play was written by English playwright, J. B. Priestly.
It was first staged in 1945. The first performance of An Inspector Calls
was held in the Soviet Union.
One year later, in the year 1946, the play was staged in the United Kingdom.
There is no doubt that An Inspector Calls
is one of the best plays written for the stage performance by J. B. Priestley.
In the year 1992, the English director Stephen Daldry revived this play for the National Theatre. This revival play brought a lot of success and fame to the playwright.
Between the year 2011 and 2012, An Inspector Calls
was performed in many towns and cities all over Great Britain. Wherever it was performed, people thronged to the theatres.
The play was big hit and its popularity continued to rise.
It is a three-act play, and the entire action takes just one night in the year 1912. The Birling family happens to be the focus of the play, and it revolves around them. They are a rich middle-class family.
The Birlings live in a luxurious and comfortable house in Brumley, a big industrial city in the north Midlands.
One day a man visits this family. The visitor calls himself Inspector Goole. He has come there to question the Birlings