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An Englishman's Home
''An Englishman's Home'' is a threat-of-invasion play by Guy du Maurier, first produced in 1909. The title is a reference to the expression "an Englishman's home is his castle". Play ''An Englishman's Home'' caused a sensation in London when it appeared anonymously, under the name "A Patriot", in 1909.#Tic22, Ticknor 1922 The writer Guy du Maurier was a regular officer in the British Army, who had seen active service during the South African War and who was to be killed in France in 1915. It first played at Wyndham's Theatre on 27 January#Mac92, MacKenzie 1992 and went on to be a long-running success. It is now considered a typical example of the invasion literature popular at the time. The play was produced by Guy's brother Gerald du Maurier, possibly without his knowledge and with some assistance from J. M. Barrie. The story concerns an attack on England by a foreign power identified as "Nearland", generally assumed to represent Germany. The home of an ordinary middle-class f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Du Maurier
Guy Louis Busson du Maurier Distinguished Service Order, DSO (18 May 1865, London, England – 9 March 1915, Kemmel, Flanders, Belgium) was an English people, English Officer (armed forces), army officer and playwright. He was the son of the writer George du Maurier and brother of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and the actor Gerald du Maurier. Busson du Maurier was educated at Marlborough College, Marlborough and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned a Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines), lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers on 7 February 1885. He was promoted to Captain (BARM), captain on 15 September 1896, and served in the Second Boer War, where he commanded a mounted infantry regiment, earning a promotion to Major (British Army and Royal Marines), major on 12 December 1900. For his service in the war, he received the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in the October 1902 South African honours list. He achieved notoriety in 1909 as the initially anonymou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
