At the crossroads between time and place: performing boxes in Priestley’s Dangerous Corner
In Dangerous Corner, one of J. B. Priestley’s “ time plays”, the playwright places an object, a musical cigarette box, at the centre of his experiment with time. The box is indeed the place where Priestley’s philosophy of time crystallizes out : as the plot unfolds and branches out from a whodunit i...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2009-03-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/5973 |