Quality Street (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- First Published: 1913
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Comedy of manners
- Time of Work: Napoleonic wars
- Setting: English provincial village
- Principal Characters: Miss Phoebe Throssel, Miss Susan Throssel, Valentine Brown
- Genres: Drama, Comedy of manners
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Marriage, England or English people, War, Napoleonic Wars
- Locales: England
Critique:
This play contains acute if not very penetrating observations on the problem of a wartime love affair in which the lovers are apart for ten years, during which time both change superficially. Most of the action is based on the heroine’s successful attempt to bring her lover to his senses. Barrie employs dramatic irony quite effectively throughout and the minimum of privacy in the lives of people in a small village is brought out with good comic effect.
The Story:
In the days of the Napoleonic wars, two sisters, Phoebe and Susan Throssel, lived in a...
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