Gcse web sheets journeys end pearson schools and fe colleges. Journeys end penguin modern classics kindle edition by sherriff. Robert rc sherriff was born in 1896 to a middle class family who lived in a village close to london. It outlines sherriff s career from humble insurance clerk to infantry. It was first performed at the apollo theatre in london by the incorporated. A century on from the events it portrayed, journeys end is a. Sherriff 18961975 joined the army shortly after the outbreak of the first world war, serving as a captain in the east surrey. Set in the first world war, journey s end concerns a group of british officers on the front line and opens in a dugout in the trenches in france. These resources are to help students who are studying journeys end as part of the ocr gcse. Journey s end is a 1928 dramatic play, the seventh of english playwright r. Sherriffs journeys end, a remembrance of war the new.
World war, 19141918, drama, world war, 19141918 in fiction, fiction. Hailed by george bernard shaw as useful corrective to the romantic conception of war, r. The heinemann plays series offers contemporary drama and classic pla. On august 12th of that same year, britain declared war on germany and the first world war began. Sherriffs classic play focused on the officer class, but the recent film adaptation has given workingclass soldiers a voice. He went to kingston grammar school and then, in 1914, began work as an insurance clerk. Sherriffs journeys end in three of the plays major runs in 19281930, 1972 and 2011. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one. Journeys end robert cedric sherriff 18961975 served in the first world war as a captain in the 9th east surrey regiment. R c sherriff s journeys end is a syllabus text and the most famous play about world war one.
It was included in burns mantles the best plays of 19281929. The journey s end quotes below are all either spoken by osborne or refer to osborne. He was wounded at passchendaele in 1917 and awarded the m. Sherriffs 1928 play journeys end, based on his memories of life in the trenches, anticipates the absurdism and existentialism of beckett. It was first performed at the apollo theatre in london by the incorporated stage society on 9 december 1928, starring a young laurence olivier, and soon moved to other west end theatres for a twoyear run. He sits in the dugout of the british trenches in st. First staged in 1928, this book tells the story of what went into the making of this extraordinary and powerful trench drama. Before and after the war sherriff had worked as an insurance salesman and had no previous experience of the professional.
Osborne character analysis in journeys end litcharts. Litcharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in journey s end, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Journeys end is a 1928 dramatic play, the seventh of english playwright r. Quentin, france, where the military is involved in trench warfare with. Sherriff s journey s end is an unflinching vision of life in the trenches towards the end of the first world war, published in penguin classics. Journey s end al characters stanhope commanding an infantry company osborne trotter hibbert raleigh officers of the company the colonel the company sergeantmajor mason the officers 5 cook hardy an officer of another regiment a young german soldier two private soldiers of the company r.