Format:
1 Online-Ressource (pages 162-248)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781350238657
Series Statement:
Oberon modern playwrights
Content:
"In the early 18th century the inability to find longitude led to such loss of life and cargo that Parliament passed an act offering £20,000 to anyone who solved the problem. Isaac Newton knew a clock would solve it but did not believe such a clock could be invented. Scientists focused on the lunar solution. JOHN HARRISON, a carpenter and joiner from Lincolnshire, taught himself to mend clocks. He invented a land clock that ran accurately, and set himself the task of inventing a clock that could run accurately at sea. He spent his life perfecting it and, together with his son, fulfilled the tests required by Parliament. For complex reasons the complete prize was never awarded to him. The play traces a lifetime's conflict between uneducated genius and the establishment. An epic play in a Hogarthian setting calling for music - HARRISON was also a choirmaster"--arnoldwesker.com
Note:
"Based on the book 'Longitude' by Dava Sobel."
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781849431446
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350238657.00000060
