An Inspector Calls and Other Plays (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Mrs Birling: her story was – that he'd said something one night when he was drunk, that gave her the idea that it wasn't his money. Accessing a CGP Online Edition by using a code from a printed CGP book grants you access to the title and Online Extras for three years from the date of activation of the code. i. Our liability to you for any losses shall not exceed the amount you originally paid for the service. Sheila: (eagerly) Yes, that's it. And I know I'm to blame – and I'm desperately sorry – but I can't believe – I won't believe – it's simply my fault that in the end she – she committed suicide. That would be too horrible – Gerald: yes. I asked her questions about herself. She told me her name was Daisy Renton, that she'd lost both parents, that she came originally from somewhere outside Brumley. She also told me she'd had a job in one of the works here and had had to leave after a strike. She said something about the shop too, but wouldn't say which it was, and she was deliberately vague about what happened. I couldn't get any exact details from her about herself – just because she felt I was interested and friendly – but at the same time, she wanted to be Daisy Renton – and not Eva Smith . In fact, I heard that name for the first time tonight. What she did let slip – though she didn't mean to – was that she was desperately hard up and at that moment was actually hungry. I made the people at the county find some food for her.

iv. You may not sub-licence, assign, rent, lease or transfer your accesses. 3. Accessing CGP Online Editions For Students and Teachers | jbpriestleysociety.com". www.jbpriestleysociety.com. Archived from the original on 18 May 2017 . Retrieved 25 May 2017.ii. You may use the Service and any titles for your own personal use, including but not limited to study, classroom teaching, lesson planning or in-school training. Birling: Edna'll answer it. Well, have another glass of port, Gerald – and then we'll join the ladies. That'll stop me giving you good advice. Priestley, J. B. (1947). An Inspector Calls: A Play in Three Acts (Firsted.). London: Heinemann. OCLC 59564726.

Inspector: (Ignoring this) now Miss Birling has just been made to understand what she did to this girl. She feels responsible . And if she leaves us now, and doesn't hear anymore, then she'll feel she's entirely to blame, she'll be alone with her responsibility, the rest of tonight, all tomorrow, all the next night-- Gerald: all right, if you must have it. I met her first, sometime in March last year, in the stalls bar at the palace. I mean the palace music hall here in Brumley - Gerald: no. she only had a port and lemonade – or some such concoction. All she wanted was to talk – a little friendliness – and I gathered that joe meggarty's advances had left her rather shaken – as well they might-- A Police Inspector arrives, and reports that he is investigating the suicide of a young woman who recently swallowed disinfectant and died in the Infirmary. When he mentions that her name was Eva Smith, Mr. Birling identifies that she used to work at his factory, before he forced her to leave when she became the ring- leader of a strike for higher wages.

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Sheila: Oh don't be stupid. We haven't much time. You gave yourself away as soon as he mentioned her other name. Sheila: When I was looking at myself in the mirror I caught sight of her smiling at the assistant , and I was furious with her. I'd been in a bad temper anyhow.

The play was produced and performed at the Ferdowsi Theatre in Iran in late 1940s based on the translation by Bozorg Alavi. It was staged in the first season of the Edinburgh Gateway Company in 1953. [14]Sheila: He went into the drawing room, to tell mother what was happening here. Eric, take the Inspector along to the drawing-room. // As Eric moves, the Inspector looks from Sheila to Gerald, then goes out with Eric. // Well, Gerald? Mrs Birling: Well, really, I don't know. I think we've just about come to an end of this wretched business-- Gerald: (lightly) Sure to be. Unless Eric’s been up to something. (nodding confidentially to Birling.) and that would be awkward, wouldn't it?

Sheila: that's probably about the best thing you've said tonight. At least it's honest. Did you go and see her every night? Sheila: (coolly) of course we are. But everybody knows about that horrible old Meggarty. A girl I know had to see him at the town hall one afternoon and she only escaped with a torn blouse --Eric: Well, she hadn't a job – and di An Inspector Calls at Lyttelton Theatre 1992-1993". www.abouttheartists.com . Retrieved 20 January 2023. Morley, Sheridan (25 September 1992). "Stop messing about". The Spectator. p.53. Archived from the original on 5 October 2015 . Retrieved 4 October 2015.