A Bill of Divorcement: A Play in Three Acts by Clemence Dane
"A Bill of Divorcement: A Play in Three Acts" by Clemence Dane is a play written in the early 20th century. It explores themes of love, family, and the societal expectations surrounding marriage and divorce during a transformative period in British society. The central characters are Margaret Fairfield, a woman struggling with her past marriage to Hilary, who has returned after years of mental illness, and her daughter Sydney, who is eagerto embrace modern ideas around love and marriage. At the start of the play, we find Margaret and her niece, Miss Hester Fairfield, engaged in a tense conversation on Christmas morning, revealing underlying family tensions regarding Margaret's delayed divorce from her mentally unstable husband. Sydney, Margaret's strong-willed daughter, enters the scene full of youthful confidence, contrasting with her mother's anxieties about her past. The opening sets the stage for a complex exploration of familial relationships, societal pressures, and the implications of love and commitment as they all navigate a changing world with the impending arrival of the formerly imprisoned Hilary, whose return complicates Margaret's desire to marry Gray Meredith. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Dane, Clemence, 1888-1965 |
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| Title | A Bill of Divorcement: A Play in Three Acts |
| Note | Reading ease score: 88.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bill_of_Divorcement_(play) |
| Credits | Produced by Chuck Greif, ellinora and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Families -- Drama |
| Subject | Man-woman relationships -- Drama |
| Subject | England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama |
| Subject | Mental illness -- Drama |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 62703 |
| Release Date | Jul 19, 2020 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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