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St John Hankin

ST JOHN HANKIN

  (1869 - 1909)
Nationality:    English
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Born in Southampton, he attended Malvern College and then Merton College, Oxford. St. John Emile Clavering Hankin (25 September 1869 - 15 June 1909) was a British Edwardian essayist and playwright. Along with George Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy, and Harley Granville-Barker, he was a major exponent of Edwardian "New Drama". Despite success as a playwright, he committed suicide in 1909, fearing that he would suffer a nervous breakdown, like his father.

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         Burglar Who Failed, The         Cassilis Engagement, The         Charity That Began At Home, The         Constant Lover, The         Last of the De Mullins, The         Pleasant Evening, A         Return Of the Prodigal, The         Thompson         Three Daughters of M. Dupont, The         Two Mr. Wetherbys, The

Burglar Who Failed, The

Synopsis:
When burglar Bill Bludgeon decides to break into Mrs Maxwell's house he meets his match - a feisty schoolgirl with a hockey stick. the burglar's true identity is unravelled and the notion of 'good Christianity' is tested.

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comedy

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Cassilis Engagement, The

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Charity That Began At Home, The

Synopsis:
It is a house party with a difference. Lady Denison puts into practise a lesson from the Church of Humanity: that 'false hospitality is inviting people because you like them. True hospitality is inviting them because they'd like to be asked.' Her daughter agrees, but her sister thinks very differently.

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1st Produced:
Court Theatre, London    1906

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Constant Lover, The

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Last of the De Mullins, The

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It is 1908. Society is changing, and the De Mullin family are being left behind. Once noble and prosperous, they have been in decline for centuries, and now the very continuation of their line is at risk: of the two De Mullin daughters, one is fast becoming a spinster, and the other Janet a disgrace to her family and hasn't been seen for almost a decade. The Last of the De Mullins is a sparkling feminist comedy-drama by acclaimed New Dramatist St John Hankin. Its satire on class and patriarchy remain as important and topical as ever.

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Stage Society, London    1908

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Genre:
comedy drama

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Pleasant Evening, A

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Unperformed    -

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http://www.xix-e.pierre-marteau.com/ed/hankin.php   -

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Genre:
Farcical Comedy in Three Acts

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Return Of the Prodigal, The

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the prodigal of the title is eustace Jackson, the son of a wealthy manufacturer. Five years earlier eustace was packed off to Australia to make his fortune, but he only succeeds at failing in everything he attempts. Desperate and destitute, he returns home, a charming loser.

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bit before 1956 but its in now !!

1st Produced:
Court Theatre, London    1905

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Play/Drama

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Thompson

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Posthumously completed by George Calderon

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first published 1913   -

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Three Daughters of M. Dupont, The

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Translation of play by Eugene Brieux

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-    1911

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in "Three Plays by Brieux" first published 1911   -

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Two Mr. Wetherbys, The

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Stage Society, London    1903

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