The foursome / E.A. Whitehead
| dc.contributor | Delbecque, Nicole Departament Linguistiek Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Leuven |
| dc.contributor.author | Whitehead, E.A. |
| dc.coverage.placeName | London |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T16:18:02Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T16:18:02Z |
| dc.date.created | 1972 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0464 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/0464 |
| 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. 88 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 foursome / E.A. Whitehead |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 89398 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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<< *140 . E . A . WHITEHEAD : THE FOURSOME . LONDON , FABER , 1972 . 75 P . FIRST PERF . : 170371 . CHAR . : 01 HARRY , 02 TIM , 03 MARIE , 04 BELLA >> $ < THE ACTION TAKES PLACE IN A HOLLOW IN THE SANDHILLS AT FRE SHFIELD , NEAR LIVERPOOL > $ #11 $ < ACT ONE > $ < SCENE : BEFORE THE LIGHTS COME UP , THE SOUND OF BIRDS IS HEARD . $ THEN THE SOUND OF POP MUSIC , SLOWLY GETTING LOUDER AS THE L IGHTS COME UP SLOWLY . $ THE LIGHTS REACH GLARING INTENSITY ON A SCENE OF BAKED WHITE SAND AND BLUE SKY AS THE MUSIC BECOMES DEAFENING . $ HARRY APPEARS AT THE TOP OF THE DUNE AND STANDS SURVEYING TH E HOLLOW . $ HE CARRIES A BEACH BAG AND A TRANSISTOR RADIO . $ TIM JOINS HIM . $ HE CARRIES A BEACH BAG AND A WAD OF NEWSPAPERS . $ BOTH MEN WEAR SWEATSHIRTS AND JEANS . $ HARRY LOOKS BEHIND ACROSS THE SAND . $ TIM DOES THE SAME . $ THEY GRIN AT EACH OTHER . $ HARRY SNAPS OFF THE TRANSISTOR . $ FOR A SECOND THEY STAND POISED LOOKING AT THE HOLLOW IN SILE NCE . > $ 01 OK ? $ 02 < ( HESITANT . $ LOOKIN . . .
