(hereafter
Restoration)
was David Storey’s first play. He wrote it at the age of twenty-four while he was living in London and working as a teacher in a tough London school; by then, he had written seven novels, none of which had found a publisher, but he had never written a play before and had rarely been to the theatre. As he recalls in his introduction to volume one of his published plays, he came home for a half-term weekend break, found yet another returned typescript and rejection slip waiting for him, and “suddenly had the notion that [he] might not be a novelist but a playwright” (ix): “I wanted to get something down in the shortest possible time that would convey my then feelings of frustration and despair” (ix). Whereas writing…
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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "The Restoration of Arnold Middleton". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 June 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41298, accessed 03 May 2024.]
