The Cresta run / N.F. Simpson
| dc.contributor | Delbecque, Nicole Departament Linguistiek Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Leuven |
| dc.contributor.author | Simpson, N.F. (Norman Frederick), 1919- |
| dc.coverage.placeName | London |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T16:17:51Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T16:17:51Z |
| dc.date.created | 1965 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0457 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/0457 |
| dc.description.abstract | Forms part of the Louvain corpus of modern English drama deposited in 1983. The text does not conform to modern standards of text encoding. The text is all capitals, with words broken over line boundaries, undocumented markup characters, and numeric codes for the identities of the players. |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 113 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Legacy Collection |
| dc.rights | Use of this resource is restricted in some manner. Usually this means that it is available for non-commercial use only with prior permission of the depositor and on condition that this header is included in its entirety with any copy distributed. |
| dc.rights.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/licence-ota |
| dc.rights.label | ACA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | English drama -- 20th century |
| dc.subject.other | Plays |
| dc.title | The Cresta run / N.F. Simpson |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 115240 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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<< *167 N. F. SIMPSON : THE CRESTA RUN . FABER AND FABER , L ONDON . 1966 . FIRST PERFORMANCE : 271065 . CAST : 01 LEONAR D , 02 LILIAN , 03 HARKER , 04 CASK , 05 GELDA , 06 ANDREYEV SKY , 07 VOICE . >> $ #7 $ < ACT ONE > $ < SCENE ONE > $ < THE FAWCETT'S LIVING-ROOM . $ NIGHT . $ WHEN THE CURTAIN GOES UP THE STAGE IS DARK . $ A DOORBELL RINGS THREE TIMES IN QUICK SUCCESSION AND THERE A RE SOUNDS OF MOVEMENT . $ LIGHTS GO UP OUTSIDE THE ROOM , AND WE HEAR SOMEONE GO TO TH E DOOR . > $ 02 < ( OFF ) > $ WHOEVER IS IT , AT THIS TIME ? $ < WE HEAR A BOLT BEING DRAWN AND A CHAIN BEING TAKEN OFF THE DOOR . $ THE LIGHT COMES ON IN THE LIVING-ROOM AS LILIAN FAWCETT ENTE RS , SWITCHING IT ON . $ SHE IS A SLIGHTLY GREYING WOMAN , APPARENTLY IN HER FIFTIES , THOUGH SHE MAY WELL BE ANYTHING UP TO TEN YEARS YOUNGER . $ SHE IS IN A DRESSING-GOWN AND HAS HER HAIR PINNED UP . $ THE LIVING-ROOM HAS TWO DOORS . $ THE ONE THROUGH WHICH LILIAN HAS COME LEADS IN FROM THE FRON T HALL AND STAIRS . $ THE OTH . . .
