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Benefactors
Set set in the 1960s and concerns an idealistic architect David and his wife Jane and their relationship with the cynical Colin and his wife Sheila. David is attempting to build some new homes to replace the slum housing of Basuto Road and is gradually forced by circumstances into building skyscrapers despite his initial aversion to these. This is set against the backdrop of 1960s new housing projects. Sheila becomes his secretary but it is unclear if she is helping him or the other way around. As the title of the play suggests it is about helping people and explores some of the difficulties inherent in this or in being helped.
Lives of Benefactors (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Lives of Benefactors The reader will remark that we have not confined our selections of bene factors to those who stand before the world, professedly, as such. Those who have been eminently useful, though in the pursuit of their own avocations, we have esteemedas doersofgoodtomankind, andgiven theme place inour pages. Of this class are Fulton, Whitney, Arkwright and others. For the brief sketches of some of this class, toward the close of the volume, we are largely indebted to the valuable little work, entitled Exemplary Biography, by Chambers, of Edinburgh. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenb...
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Benefactors and the Polis
Analyses elite public generosity as a structural feature of the polis throughout all periods of ancient Greek history.
Frayn Plays: 2
"One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times) Benefactors conjures the world of the suburbs observed through the lens of post-imperialism; "dazzling.. This prismatic work circumscribes the disillusionment of an era" (New York Times); Balmoral dares to imagine what Britain would be like if it had gone through the Russian revolution in 1917; "a sophisticated drollery, an educated amusement" (New Statesman); Wild Honey is a reworking of Checkov's first play (also known as Platonov) and is shot through with farce, feminism and eroticism.
Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy
The first thorough study of charity, and medical and poor relief, in post-Renaissance Italy.
