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Richard Hughes

RICHARD HUGHES

  (1900 - 1976)
Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    David Higham Associates Ltd  represented by Georgia Glover

Born in 1900, Richard Hughes was the author of the world's first radio play, Danger, commissioned by the BBC and broadcast in 1924. Two years later he published the first and perhaps best known of his four novels, A High Wind in Jamaica, which explores the events following the accidental capture of a group of English children by pirates. It became a worldwide bestseller and won the Prix Femina in France, establishing itself as a modern classic. In his latter years, he worked on a series of novels, called The Human Predicament, a massive project in which he explored the social, economic, political and moral forces which shaped the period from the 1920s through the Second World War, including real characters and events  such as Hitlers escape following the abortive Munich putsch. Although only two of these novels, The Fox in the Attic (1961) and The Wooden Sheperdess (1973), were completed, Hughess achievement has been widely praised. No other twentieth century novelist has so successfully transposed history into fiction.

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below is a list of Richard Hughes's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Comedy Of Good And Evil, A         Danger         Man Born To Be Hanged, The         Minnie and Mr Williams         Sisters Tragedy, The

Comedy Of Good And Evil, A

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Welsh Comedy Comedy

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Danger

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Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  voices

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Man Born To Be Hanged, The

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Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Minnie and Mr Williams

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the Devil sends a young woman to a vicar in a small parish in Wales. She is to persuade him to go to Hell with her

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Sisters Tragedy, The

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Tragedy

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Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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