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Harold Brighouse (26 July 1882 – 25 July 1958) was an English playwright and author whose best known play is Hobson's Choice. He was a prominent member, together with Allan Monkhouse and Stanley Houghton , of a group known as the Manchester School of dramatists.
Hobson's Choice is a play by Harold Brighouse, the title taken from the popular expression, Hobson's choice—meaning no choice at all (from Thomas Hobson 1545–1631, who ran a thriving livery stable in Cambridge). The first production was at the Princess Theatre in New York on November 2, 1915.
Harold Brighouse was born in Eccles, Salford in 1882 (although his RAF service papers say 1880). He left school aged 17 and started work as a textile buyer in a shipping merchant's office. In 1902 he went to London to set up an office for his firm, but in 1908 he became a full-time writer. The first play written by Brighouse was 'Lonesome Like ...
Harold Brighouse was an English playwright and author born in Eccles, Salford in 1882. His most successful and well-known play was Hobson’s Choice, a comedy about gender and social class conventions which premiered in New York in 1915. This is a curated collection, digitised from the Harold Brighouse Collection held at Salford Local History ...
Sep 14, 2010 · Harold Brighouse was a star writer in his time. Today, he’s viewed as a one-play wonder. Everyone knows Hobson’s Choice, his tale of a Salford cobbler outfoxed by his daughters. A hit in New York before its London debut in 1916, the play has been studied by generations of schoolchildren and was made into a classic film by David Lean. But no one remembers much about Brighouse’s other writing. Yet he was prolific, with novels, journalism and 14 other plays to his name. I heard about one ...
Harold Brighouse was an English playwright and author whose best known play is Hobson's Choice. He was a prominent member, together with Allan Monkhouse and Stanley Houghton, of a group known as the Manchester School of dramatists.
Jun 22, 2013 · You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Hobson's Choice Author: Harold Brighouse Release Date: August, 2004 [EBook #6347] This file was first posted on November 29, 2002 Last Updated: June 22, 2013 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOBSON'S CHOICE *** Text file produced by Delphine Lettau, Charles Franks and the Online ...
