The Common Pursuit: Scenes from the Literary Life (1984)

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Simon Gray

Play script

English

'The Common Pursuit follows the lives of six characters who first meet in Stuart Thorne’s rooms as undergraduates at Cambridge, when he invites them to the first meeting of his new literary magazine called The Common Pursuit. [...] It then follows their lives and careers over the next twenty years. [...] 'The title is an allusion to F. R. Leavis’s 1952 collection of essays Scrutiny: The Common Pursuit.' (Simon Gray website)

Date of Composition: 1984

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Publishers

Eyre Methuen on (1984)

Characters

Stuart (Age: Not specified, Male)

Marigold (Age: Not specified, Female)

Martin (Age: Not specified, Male)

Nick (Common Pursuit) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Peter (Common Pursuit) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Humphry (Age: Not specified, Male)

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Simon Gray Official Website

http://simongray.org.uk/plays/common-pursuit-play/

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