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Journey's End is a 1928 dramatic play by English playwright R. C. Sherriff, set in the trenches near Saint-Quentin, Aisne, towards the end of the First World War.
- Robert Cedric Sherriff
- 1928
Nov 30, 2020 · The most enduring literary legacies of the First World War are, arguably, the works of the so-called ‘War Poets’ (Owen, Sassoon, Brooke, Graves et al), Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Brittain’s Testament of Youth, Graves’ Goodbye to All That – and Sherriff’s 1928 play Journey’s End.
Sherriff also wrote prose. A novelised version of Journey's End, co-written with Vernon Bartlett, was published in 1930. His 1939 novel, The Hopkins Manuscript is an H. G. Wells-influenced post-apocalyptic story about an earth devastated because of a collision with the Moon.
Jun 19, 2014 · R. C. Sherriff’s 1928 play “Journey’s End,” based on his memories of life in the trenches, anticipates the absurdism and existentialism of Beckett.
Apr 1, 2016 · Surrey writer Robert Cedric Sherriff (1896-1975) is famous throughout the world for Journey’s End, the greatest play in the English language to explore the experience of serving on the Western Front.
Nov 4, 2018 · R.C Sherriff wrote his celebrated play Journey’s End in 1928, ten years after the end of the First World War. Praised for capturing the claustrophobia and viciousness of trench warfare and the nature of life and death on the western front, the story begins on the evening of Monday 18 March 1918 and continues over three days.
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In 1928, RC Sherriff wrote a play called Journey's End, which was set in a dugout during the Great War and based on his own experiences of serving with the 9th East Surrey Regiment on the Western Front.
