John Bull’s Other Island (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- First Published: 1907
- Type of Plot: Naturalistic; comedy
- Time of Work: Summer, 1904
- Setting: London, England, and Rosscullen, Ireland
- Principal Characters: Tom Broadbent, Laurence Doyle, Cornelius Doyle, Father Keegan, Nora Reilly, Barney Doran, Matt Haffigan
- Genres: Naturalistic literature, Satire, Drama, Comedy
- Subjects: Values, Twentieth century, England or English people, Politicians, London, Patriotism, Ireland or Irish people
- Locales: London, England, Rosscullen, Ireland
The Play
Act one opens in the Westminster office-cum-bachelor rooms of Broadbent and Doyle, civil engineers. Tom Broadbent, very much the cheery, beef-fed John Bull, just back from a trip, instructs his valet, Hodson, to pack their bags for Ireland. He inquires whether anyone has called while he was away. Only an Irishman named Haffigan, replies Hodson, so disreputable that the punctilious valet showed him the door. However, Broadbent expresses an enthusiastic desire to see him. At that moment, fortuitously, Haffigan calls again.
Seedy, red-nosed, and possessed of a...
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