"2010 at the Above The Stag Theatre in London. Above the Stag will be staging it again in September/October 2018, as part of the theatre's first season in their new premises. It will be directed by James Wilby. The US premiere opened on 24 February 2012 at the New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco. Maurice (novel) Maurice is a novel by E. M. Forster. A tale of homosexual love in early 20th-century England, it follows Maurice Hall from his schooldays through university and beyond. It was written in 1913–1914, and revised in 1932 and 1959–1960. Forster was close friends"
"his Preface to its Everyman's Library Edition. ""A Passage to India"" was adapted as a play in 1960, directed by Frank Hauser, and as a film in 1984, directed by David Lean. ""Maurice"" (1971) was published posthumously. It is a homosexual love story which also returns to matters familiar from Forster's first three novels, such as the suburbs of London in the English home counties, the experience of attending Cambridge, and the wild landscape of Wiltshire. The novel was controversial, given that Forster's homosexuality had not been previously known or widely acknowledged. Today's critics continue to argue over the extent"
"Maurice (Shelley) ""Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot"" is a children's story by the Romantic writer Mary Shelley. Written in 1820 for Laurette Tighe, a daughter of her friends Margaret King and George William Tighe, Mary Shelley tried to have it published by her father, William Godwin, but he refused. The text was lost until 1997, when a manuscript copy was discovered in Italy. ""Maurice"" tells the story of a boy searching for a home and his encounters with a traveller who turns out to be his long-lost father. The story is narrated in a melancholy tone from several points of"
"happy ending. ""A happy ending was imperative,"" wrote Forster, ""...I was determined that in fiction anyway, two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows ... Happiness is its keynote."" The book was not published until 1971, after Forster's death. William J. Mann said of the novel, ""[Alec Scudder of ""Maurice"" was] a refreshingly unapologetic young gay man who was not an effete Oscar Wilde aristocrat, but rather a working class, masculine, ordinary guy ... an example of the working class teaching the privileged class about honesty and authenticity a bit"
"Maurice Magnus Maurice Magnus (7 November 1876 – 4 November 1920) was an American traveller and author of ""Memoirs of the Foreign Legion"", which exposed the cruelty and depravity of life in that French army unit in 1916-17. The memoirs, published after his death, were notable for igniting a long-running feud between two of the most distinguished expatriate English authors, D.H. Lawrence and Norman Douglas, who had been close friends of his. Both the book and the feud surrounding it touched on homosexuality and bisexuality in a way that could not legally be referenced at the time. More recent revelations"
"Pierre La Mure Pierre La Mure (15 June 1909 - 28 December 1976) was a French author. La Mure was born in Nice, in department Alpes-Maritimes. He published the 1950 novel ""Moulin Rouge"" about the life of the French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. This book was the basis of the classic 1952 movie of the same name. La Mure also produced the book ""Beyond Desire"" about the life of Cécile and Felix Mendelssohn and the biographical novel ""Claire de Lune"" on the life and struggles of French composer Claude Debussy, published during 1962. He died in California, USA, aged 67."
"Médiathèque Marcelle Maurette. Two different birth years, 1903 and 1909, are given by people writing about Maurette. Marcelle Maurette Marcelle Maurette (1903-1972) was a French playwright and screenwriter who is particularly well known for her play ""Anastasia"" (1952) which brought her international recognition, and inspired a film of the same name. It is not her only play centred on a woman with a tragic story. Many other works of hers feature historical or fictional heroines with dramatic lives. She was honoured with various awards and was a prominent French literary figure. Marcelle Marie Joséphine Maurette was born in Toulouse to"
"for the deaths of their children and concerned that the children were not receiving proper religious training, he consistently refused to let Claire see their daughter. Mary Shelley wrote ""Maurice"" for Laurette Tighe on 10 August 1820. Shelley's journal for that day notes: ""Thursday 10—Write a story for Laurette—Walk on the mountain—Le Buche delle Fate [fairy grottoes or caves]—The weather is warm & delightful"". Claire Clairmont and Laurette had spent Laurette's birthday together in Pisa and the following day on the coast with Mary Shelley; this excursion may have inspired the story, which may have been a birthday present. Shelley"
"of gift to her daughter and husband. The last Marple novel Christie wrote, ""Nemesis"", was published in 1971, followed by Christie's last Poirot novel ""Elephants Can Remember"" in 1972 and then in 1973 by her very last novel ""Postern of Fate"". Aware that she would write no more novels, Christie authorised the publication of ""Curtain"" in 1975 to send off Poirot. She then arranged to have ""Sleeping Murder"" published in 1976, but she died before its publication in October 1976. By contrast to Poirot, who dies in the final novel, Miss Marple lives on. This last published novel is set"
"much for sappy personal writing, where writers tell me what they feel about things rather than what they know about things."" Richard Marius Richard Curry Marius (July 29, 1933 – November 5, 1999) was an American academic and writer. He was a scholar of the Reformation, novelist of the American South, speechwriter, and teacher of writing and English literature at Harvard University. He was widely published, leaving behind major biographies of Thomas More and Martin Luther, four novels set in his native Tennessee, several books on writing, and a host of scholarly articles for academic journals and mainstream book reviews."
"Mercier and Camier Mercier and Camier is a novel by Samuel Beckett that was written in 1946, but remained unpublished until 1970. Appearing immediately before his celebrated ""trilogy"" of ""Molloy"", ""Malone Dies"" and ""The Unnamable"", ""Mercier et Camier"" was Beckett's first attempt at extended prose fiction in French. Beckett refused to publish it in its original French until 1970, and while an English translation by Beckett himself was published in 1974 (London: Calder and Boyars and New York: Grove Press), the author had made substantial alterations to and deletions from the original text while ""reshaping"" it from French to English."
"Marcelle Maurette Marcelle Maurette (1903-1972) was a French playwright and screenwriter who is particularly well known for her play ""Anastasia"" (1952) which brought her international recognition, and inspired a film of the same name. It is not her only play centred on a woman with a tragic story. Many other works of hers feature historical or fictional heroines with dramatic lives. She was honoured with various awards and was a prominent French literary figure. Marcelle Marie Joséphine Maurette was born in Toulouse to General Georges Maurette and Marie-Louise Donbernard, on 14 November 1903. (See ‘Birthdate notes’ section lower down page.)"
"Louise to inform her of the truth and rushes to the chalet, but she is too late. Louise has contracted consumption by lying out in the dew overnight and she dies a few days later. Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées (Letters of Two Brides) is an epistolary novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It was serialized in the French newspaper ""La Presse"" in 1841 and published by Furne in 1842 as the first work in the second volume (""Scènes de la vie privée, tome II"" or ""Scenes from Private Life, Volume 2"") of"
"Richard Marius Richard Curry Marius (July 29, 1933 – November 5, 1999) was an American academic and writer. He was a scholar of the Reformation, novelist of the American South, speechwriter, and teacher of writing and English literature at Harvard University. He was widely published, leaving behind major biographies of Thomas More and Martin Luther, four novels set in his native Tennessee, several books on writing, and a host of scholarly articles for academic journals and mainstream book reviews. Marius was known as a raconteur and political activist. Marius began life as a farmboy in East Tennessee, evolved into a"
"United States. He died at Quebec City at the age of 52. Faucher de Saint-Maurice Narcisse Henri Édouard Faucher (April 18, 1844 – April 1, 1897) was a Canadian author, journalist, army officer, and politician who published books under the name Faucher de Saint-Maurice. Faucher was born in Quebec. His father was seigneur of Beaumont, Vincennes, and Montapeine. He was educated at the Séminaire de Québec and at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière. He was interested in a military career. In 1864 he went to play a part in the conflict in Mexico and became a captain in the 4th Mexican"
"Faucher de Saint-Maurice Narcisse Henri Édouard Faucher (April 18, 1844 – April 1, 1897) was a Canadian author, journalist, army officer, and politician who published books under the name Faucher de Saint-Maurice. Faucher was born in Quebec. His father was seigneur of Beaumont, Vincennes, and Montapeine. He was educated at the Séminaire de Québec and at the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière. He was interested in a military career. In 1864 he went to play a part in the conflict in Mexico and became a captain in the 4th Mexican sharpshooters, and afterward was aide-de-camp to General the Viscount Courtois Roussel d'Hurbal."
"view and focuses on the theme of loss, particularly the separation of parents and children. Shelley explored this partly autobiographical theme in other works written at the same time, including her novel ""Mathilda"" and her play ""Proserpine"". The story's straightforward language reflects that of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, whose works Shelley was reading while she composed ""Maurice"". In 1814, the seventeen-year-old Mary Shelley (Mary Godwin, at the time) ran off with Percy Bysshe Shelley to continental Europe, accompanied by Claire Clairmont, Mary's stepsister. After six weeks of travelling, they returned to England but continued to live together. Mary returned"
"Mallory (novel) Mallory is a 1950 thriller novel by British writer James Hadley Chase. ""Mallory"" is one of the eighteen novels Chase published under the nom-de-plume Raymond Marshall. The leader of a small French resistance group who was betrayed to the Gestapo by one of the group's own members had died and the group came to London after World War II to avenge the death of their leader. But the traitor, Mallory, proved more than a match for them, and two corpses later, the remaining three called in outside help. They chose Martin Corridon, an ex-commando, who accepted the job"
"Paule Marshall Paule Marshall (born April 9, 1929) is an American author, best known for her 1959 novel ""Brown Girl, Brownstones"". In 1992, at the age of 63, Marshall was awarded a Macarthur Fellowship Grant. Marshall was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn, NY, to Adriana Viola Clement Burke and Sam Burke. Marshall's father had migrated from Barbados to New York in 1919 and, during her childhood, deserted the family to join a quasi-religious cult, leaving his wife to raise their children by herself. Smitten with the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, Marshall changed her given name from Pauline to Paule"
"Maurine Dallas Watkins Maurine Dallas Watkins (July 27, 1896 – August 10, 1969) was an American journalist and playwright. In the 1920s she wrote the stage play ""Chicago"" (1926), about women accused of murder, the press, celebrity criminals, and the corruption of justice. Her play had a successful run on Broadway, during the roaring twenties — the play was then adapted twice for film. Watkins went on to write screen-plays in Hollywood, eventually retiring to Florida. After her death in 1969, ""Chicago"" was adapted in 1977 as a successful Broadway stage musical, which developed into an award winning 2002 film"
"for adults at the time, and contains multiple narrators. It is written in a melancholy tone, beginning with a funeral and finishing with the decay of the cottage. However, in her review of the Tomalin edition in the ""New York Times"", Marina Warner writes that the story ""contains little of the seething originality, moral complexity or sinister Gothic speculativeness of ""Frankenstein"""". Mary Shelley was reading the poetry of William Wordsworth while she wrote ""Maurice"". Tomalin has argued that ""Wordsworth does seem to preside over ""Maurice"", with its clear, straightforward language, and its setting among simple people and poor labourers, and"
"he went on a pilgrimage to the Wiltshire countryside that had inspired his favourite novel ""The Longest Journey"", escorted by William Golding. In 1969 he was made a member of the Order of Merit. Forster died of a stroke on 7 June 1970 at the age of 91, at the Buckinghams' home in Coventry. His ashes, mingled with those of Buckingham, were later scattered in the rose garden of Coventry's crematorium, near Warwick University. Forster had five novels published in his lifetime. Although ""Maurice"" was published shortly after his death, it had been written nearly sixty years earlier. He never"
"Bruce Marshall Lieutenant-Colonel Claude Cunningham Bruce Marshall, known as Bruce Marshall (24 June 1899 – 18 June 1987) was a prolific Scottish writer who wrote fiction and non-fiction books on a wide range of topics and genres. His first book, ""A Thief in the Night"" came out in 1918, possibly self-published. His last, ""An Account of Capers"" was published posthumously in 1988, a span of 70 years. Marshall was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Claude Niven Marshall and Annie Margaret (Bruce) Marshall. He was educated at St. Andrews. He became a Roman Catholic in 1917 and remained active"
"their 35-year relationship, the then 27-year-old Anderson was Cadmus' model and muse in many of his works. Cadmus was also close friends with many illustrious artists, authors, and dancers including: Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden, George Balanchine, George Platt Lynes, George Tooker, Lincoln Kirstein (his brother-in-law), and E. M. Forster, who was said to have read his novel ""Maurice"" aloud while Cadmus painted his portrait. In 1999, he died at his home in Weston, Connecticut, due to advanced age, just five days shy of his 95th birthday. From 1931 until 1992, Cadmus produced 120 paintings, two a year on average."
"Malice (series) Malice is a two-book young adult series that was written by British author Chris Wooding and illustrated by Dan Chernett. The first book, ""Malice"", was released on October 1, 2009 and the second work, ""Havoc"", was released in October of the following year. After the release of the first book Wooding announced that there was interest in a film adaptation of the series and in January 2010, announced that a first draft of the script had been written. In the comments section on his website during 2012 Wooding later remarked that there was no progress on the film"
"Maurice (film) Maurice is a 1987 British romantic drama film based on the novel ""Maurice"" by E. M. Forster. It is a tale of gay love in early 20th-century England. The story follows its main character Maurice Hall through university, a tumultuous relationship, struggling to fit into society, and ultimately being united with his life partner. The film was produced by Ismail Merchant via Merchant Ivory Productions and Film Four International, directed by James Ivory, and written by Ivory and Kit Hesketh-Harvey, with cinematography by Pierre Lhomme. The film stars James Wilby as Maurice, Hugh Grant as Clive and Rupert"
"Ulysses (novel) Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal ""The Little Review"" from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's 40th birthday. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called ""a demonstration and summation of the entire movement"". According to Declan Kiberd, ""Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking"". ""Ulysses"" chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of"
"suggested that her father, philosopher William Godwin, publish ""Maurice"" as part of his ""Juvenile Library"", but he refused. He may have thought it was too short or that it too closely resembled a story by Caroline Barnard entitled ""The Fisher-boy of Weymouth"" that he had just published in 1819. In his article on ""Maurice"", L. Adam Mekler suggests that Godwin may also have rejected the story because of the ""strong biographical parallels"" with the history of the Shelleys and the Godwins. The manuscript was lost until Cristina Dazzi discovered it in the summer of 1997 in the home of the"
"and was interred in the Cimetière de Vemars, Val d'Oise, France. François Mauriac François Charles Mauriac (; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the"" Académie française"" (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the ""Légion d'honneur"" in 1958. He was a lifelong Catholic. François Charles Mauriac was born in Bordeaux, France. He studied literature at the University of Bordeaux, graduating in 1905, after which he moved to Paris to prepare for postgraduate study at the École"
"a sensitive relationship. John Fowles John Robert Fowles (; 31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist of international stature, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work reflects the influence of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others. After leaving Oxford University, Fowles taught English at a school on the Greek island of Spetses, a sojourn that inspired ""The Magus"", an instant best-seller that was directly in tune with 1960s ""hippy"" anarchism and experimental philosophy. This was followed by ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1969), a Victorian-era romance with a postmodern twist that was set in Lyme"
"Maurice Leitch Maurice Leitch (born 5 July 1933) is an author born in Northern Ireland. Leitch's work includes novels, short stories, dramas, screenplays and radio and television documentaries. His first novel was ""The Liberty Lad"", published in 1965. His second novel, ""Poor Lazarus"" was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1969, and ""Silver's City"" won the Whitbread Prize in 1981. Leitch taught in primary schools in Antrim for several years before joining BBC Northern Ireland in 1960 as a producer/writer. In 1970, he moved to London to become a producer in the BBC's Radio drama department. From 1977 until 1989"
"Maurice de la Taille Maurice de La Taille (30 November 1872 – 23 October 1933) was a French Roman Catholic priest whose writings influenced the Liturgical Movement. He entered the Jesuit order in 1890 and taught theology at the Catholic University of the West in Angers. From 1916 to 1918 he was military chaplain to the Canadian Army. From 1919 he taught at the Pontifical Gregorian University. His principal work, ""Mysterium Fidei"", written in 1921, was a comprehensive study of the Mass. Dealing with the sacrifice once offered by Christ, he describes the Mass as the Sacrifice of the Church"
"John Fowles John Robert Fowles (; 31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist of international stature, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work reflects the influence of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others. After leaving Oxford University, Fowles taught English at a school on the Greek island of Spetses, a sojourn that inspired ""The Magus"", an instant best-seller that was directly in tune with 1960s ""hippy"" anarchism and experimental philosophy. This was followed by ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1969), a Victorian-era romance with a postmodern twist that was set in Lyme Regis, Dorset, where"