Plenty (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: David Hare
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Social
- Time of Work: 1943-1962
- Setting: St. Benoit, France; London and Blackpool, England; and Brussels, Belgium
- Genres: Social realism, Drama, Allegory
- Subjects: 1950’s, Values, 1960’s, France or French people, Marriage, 1940’s, England or English people, Feminism, London, Ethics, Espionage or spies, Diplomacy or diplomats, Belgium or Belgian people
- Locales: London, England, Brussels, Belgium, Blackpool, England, St. Benoit, France
Characters Discussed
Susan Traherne, the central character of the drama, who is profoundly frustrated in her attempt to find personal and professional fulfillment in postwar England. At the age of seventeen, she served as a Special Operations Executive Courier, working with the French Resistance against the occupying Germans in 1943. After the war, she regards the future with hope and optimism but finds only frustration and boredom. Her life peaks emotionally when she meets a British agent, known only as Codename Lazar, under dangerous circumstances in France. She is courted by...
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