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Informationen zum Autor J. B. Priestley Klappentext They Came to a City expresses the sharp differences in opinion about the post-war world among various sections of the British people. Summer Day's Dreams is a fantastical comedy in which certain values, such as duty and national pride, come up for discussion. The Glass Cage is set in Toronto at the turn of the 20th century. Zusammenfassung Includes the plays They Came to a City, Summer Day's Dream and The Glass Cage With an introduction by Tom Priestley.All three dramas in this second volume of J B Priestley's plays investigate the question of an individual's responsibility towards his or her family and community. In They Came to a City, written at the height of the Second World War, a mixed bag of Britons mysteriously find themselves outside a strange city. What kind of 'New Jerusalem' is this, and will it suit everybody?Summer Day's Dream, first performed in 1949, is set in the future - 1975. In a Britain bombed back into pre-industrial past, three representatives of the new world order disturb the tranquil lives of three generations of an English family. The themes of hypocrisy and redemption are brought to the fore in The Glass Cage, when three black sheep of a respectable Toronto clan are grudgingly welcomed back into the family home.
