<p>Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as ''useful [corrective] to the romantic conception of war'', R.C. Sherriff''s <i>Journey''s End</i> is an unflinching vision of life in the trenches towards the end of the First World War, published in Penguin Classics.<br><br>Set in the First World War, <i>Journey''s End</i> concerns a group of British officers on the front line and opens in a dugout in the trenches in France. Raleigh, a new eighteen-year-old officer fresh out of English public school, joins the besieged company of his friend and cricketing hero Stanhope, and finds him dramatically changed. Laurence Olivier starred as Stanhope in the first performance of <i>Journey''s End</i> in 1928; the play was an instant stage success and remains a remarkable anti-war classic.<br><br>R.C. Sherriff (1896-1975) joined the army shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, serving as a captain in the East Surrey regiment. After the war, an interest in amateur theatricals led him to try his hand
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The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This play deals with the horror and futility of trench warfare, as Captain...
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