The Corn Is Green (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Emlyn Williams
- First Published: 1938
- Type of Plot: Melodrama
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth century
- Setting: A remote village in Wales
- Principal Characters: Miss Moffat, Morgan Evans, Miss Ronberry, Mr. John Goronwy Jones, The Squire, Mrs. Watty, Bessie Watty
- Genres: Drama, Melodrama, Women’s literature, Autobiographical drama
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Nineteenth century, Education or educators, Class consciousness, Duty, Illegitimacy, Working class, Students or student life, Wales or Welsh people, Coal or coal mining
- Locales: Wales
The Play
The Corn Is Green is set solely in the living room of a house in a remote Welsh mining village in the latter half of the nineteenth century. When the first act opens, two local people, the genteel Miss Ronberry and the chapel-going Mr. Jones, are unpacking books and putting them on shelves in preparation for the arrival of the new owner. They are joined by the bluff and hearty Squire.
All three are astonished when, instead of the man they had assumed the new owner to be, Miss Moffat arrives and announces in a down-to-earth, uninhibited way that she has...
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