"Hobson's Choice (play) Hobson's Choice is a play by Harold Brighouse, the title taken from the popular expression, Hobson's choice—meaning no choice at all (from Thomas Hobson 1545–1631 who ran a thriving livery stable in Cambridge). The first production was at the Princess Theatre in New York. It then transferred to London on 24 June 1916 at the Apollo Theatre, before moving to the Prince of Wales Theatre on 20 November 1916 (starring Norman McKinnel, as Henry Hobson, Edyth Goodall as Maggie Hobson and Joe Nightingale as Willie Mossop). It was performed by the National Theatre at the Old Vic,London"
"Harold Brighouse Harold Brighouse (26 July 1882 – 25 July 1958) was an English playwright and author whose best known play is ""Hobson's Choice"". He was a prominent member, together with Allan Monkhouse and Stanley Houghton, of a group known as the Manchester School of dramatists. Harold Brighouse was born in Eccles, Salford, the eldest child of John Southworth Brighouse, a manager in a cotton-spinning firm, and Charlotte Amelia née Harrison, a headmistress. Harold went to a local school, then won a scholarship to Manchester Grammar School. He left school aged 17 and started work as a textile buyer in"
"Hobson's Choice (1954 film) Hobson's Choice is a 1954 British romantic comedy film directed by David Lean. It is based on the play of the same name by Harold Brighouse. It stars Charles Laughton in the role of Victorian bootmaker Henry Hobson, Brenda De Banzie as his eldest daughter and John Mills as a timid employee. The film also features Prunella Scales in one of her first cinema roles as Vicky. ""Hobson's Choice"" won the British Academy Film Award for Best British Film 1954. Willie Mossop (John Mills) is a gifted but unappreciated bootmaker employed by the tyrannical Henry Horatio"
"Hobson's Choice (1931 film) Hobson's Choice is a 1931 British comedy drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring James Harcourt, Viola Lyel, Frank Pettingell and Herbert Lomas. Based on the play ""Hobson's Choice"" by Harold Brighouse, it follows the tale of a coarse bootshop owner who becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler. It was produced by the leading British company of the time, British International Pictures, at their studios in Elstree. The film is missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's ""75 Most Wanted"""
"lost films. An earlier silent film version of the play had been released in 1920. Hobson's Choice (1931 film) Hobson's Choice is a 1931 British comedy drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring James Harcourt, Viola Lyel, Frank Pettingell and Herbert Lomas. Based on the play ""Hobson's Choice"" by Harold Brighouse, it follows the tale of a coarse bootshop owner who becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler. It was produced by the leading British company of the time, British International Pictures, at their studios in Elstree. The film is missing from the BFI"
"""What I Have Had"" was published in 1953. In the First World War, Brighouse was declared unfit for combat, but joined what later became the Royal Air Force, and was seconded to the Air Ministry Intelligence Staff, where in his spare time he wrote ""Hobson's Choice"". In 1919 he moved to Hampstead, London. In 1958 he collapsed in the Strand and died the following day in Charing Cross Hospital. His estate amounted to just under £14,500. Harold Brighouse Harold Brighouse (26 July 1882 – 25 July 1958) was an English playwright and author whose best known play is ""Hobson's Choice""."
"Collection), Blu-ray, and LaserDisc. Hobson's Choice (1954 film) Hobson's Choice is a 1954 British romantic comedy film directed by David Lean. It is based on the play of the same name by Harold Brighouse. It stars Charles Laughton in the role of Victorian bootmaker Henry Hobson, Brenda De Banzie as his eldest daughter and John Mills as a timid employee. The film also features Prunella Scales in one of her first cinema roles as Vicky. ""Hobson's Choice"" won the British Academy Film Award for Best British Film 1954. Willie Mossop (John Mills) is a gifted but unappreciated bootmaker employed by"
"very near to his old coaching inn, at the junction of Jesus Lane and King Street. The inn is now part of the ""King Street Run"" (a student pub crawl), and has had various changes of name but is today called the Cambridge Brewhouse. Thomas Hobson Thomas Hobson (c. 15441 January 1631), was an English carrier, best known as the origin of the expression Hobson's choice. The term ""Hobson's choice"" originated in the mid-seventeenth century, after Hobson's death. The poet John Milton made Hobson, and the phrase, well known, by satirising him several times in mock epitaphs. Joseph Addison and"
"Thomas Hobson Thomas Hobson (c. 15441 January 1631), was an English carrier, best known as the origin of the expression Hobson's choice. The term ""Hobson's choice"" originated in the mid-seventeenth century, after Hobson's death. The poet John Milton made Hobson, and the phrase, well known, by satirising him several times in mock epitaphs. Joseph Addison and his co-editor Richard Steele commented on Hobson in ""The Spectator"": Hobson arranged the delivery of mail between London and Cambridge up and down the Old North Road, operating a lucrative livery stable outside the gates of St Catharine's College, Cambridge as an innkeeper. When"
"Harold Hobson Sir Harold Hobson (4 August 1904 – 12 March 1992) was an English drama critic and author. He was born in Thorpe Hesley near Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. He attended Sheffield Grammar School, from where he gained a scholarship to Oriel College at Oxford University, graduating with a second-class degree in Modern History in 1928. In 1931 he began to write London theatre reviews for the ""Christian Science Monitor"" and in 1935 he was employed on the paper's staff, remaining its London drama critic until 1974. He was an assistant literary editor for the ""Sunday Times"" from"
"Many of his plays were one-act pieces; three of the best of these (""The Northerners"", ""Zack"" and ""The Game"") were published together as ""Three Lancashire Plays"" in 1920. All of these plays were set in Lancashire but Brighouse also wrote plays of a different type, such as ""The Oak Settle"" and ""Maid of France"". His most successful play was ""Hobson's Choice"", first produced in 1915 in New York where Payne was working. It was first produced in England in 1916 at the Apollo Theatre, London, where it ran for 246 performances. The play was made into a film, directed by"
"radio programme ""The Critics"". In the 1960s, he was invited by Peter Hall to join the board of the National Theatre. Hobson wrote a number of books relating to British and French theatre, including his autobiography, entitled ""Indirect Journey"" (1978), and a personal history based on his work as a drama critic, ""Theatre in Britain"" (1984). Harold Hobson received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II in 1977. Harold Hobson Sir Harold Hobson (4 August 1904 – 12 March 1992) was an English drama critic and author. He was born in Thorpe Hesley near Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. He attended"
"tragedy on the life of Thomas Cromwell. Some of his poems are in James Dodsley's ""Collection""; they include a translation of Edward Holdsworth's ""Muscipula"". He also edited his father's works (three volumes, 1773), to which he prefixed a short ""Life"" originally in the ""Biographia Britannica"". John Hoadly (playwright) John Hoadly (1711–1776) was an English cleric, known as a poet and dramatist. Born in Broad Street, London, on 8 October 1711, he was the youngest son of Bishop Benjamin Hoadly by his wife Sarah Curtis. After attending Newcome's school at Hackney, where he played the part of Phocyas in John Hughes's"
"Mary Hobson Mary Hobson (born 1926) is an English writer, poet and translator. She has written four novels and an autobiography. She translated Alexander Griboedov's ""Woe from Wit"" and his letters. She also translated works by Alexander Pushkin. She has won the Griboedov Prize and Pushkin Medal. Hobson married a stage designer named Neil, and together they had four children. At 25 years of age he developed a cerebral abscess which left him debilitated on the right side of his body and speechless. Her husband became very difficult to live with and Mary Hobson left him in her 60s. Her"
"""Tipping the Winner"" (1914). The play was produced by the Longacre Theatre, 220 West 48th Street, in Manhattan. ""Hobson's Choice"" (1916) is a play which starred Pearson, Viola Roach, Whitford Kane and Olive Wilmont Davis. It was staged at Teller's Theatre, 912 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York. In February 1917 Pearson acted in ""The Professor's Love Story"" before an audience at the Savoy Theatre. It was produced by H. B. Irving and featured George Arliss in the role of 'Professor Goodwillie'. Jeanne Eagels, then a very young performer, was among the players. The Belmont Theatre at 121 West 48th Street, New"
"1944 and later became its drama critic (1947–76). He was the only drama critic to recognise Harold Pinter's talent as a dramatist and wrote of ""The Birthday Party"": ""I am willing to risk whatever reputation I have as a judge of plays by saying ... that Mr Pinter, on the evidence of this work, possesses the most original, disturbing and arresting talent in theatrical London."" During his career, he was to champion many other new playwrights, especially John Osborne, Samuel Beckett and Tom Stoppard. Hobson also wrote for ""Drama"" and ""The Listener"" and was a regular member of the BBC"
"a full-length stage comedy written by Harold Brighouse in 1915. At the end of the play, the central character, Henry Horatio Hobson, formerly a wealthy, self-made businessman but now a sick and broken man, faces the unpalatable prospect of being looked after by his daughter Maggie and her husband Will Mossop, who used to be one of Hobson's underlings. His other daughters have refused to take him in, so he has no choice but to accept Maggie's offer which comes with the condition that he must surrender control of his entire business to her and her husband, Will. The play"
"Howard Barker Howard Barker (born 28 June 1946) is a British playwright, screenwriter and writer of radio drama, poet, and essayist writing predominantly on playwriting and the theatre. The author of an extensive body of dramatic works since the 1970s, he is best known for his plays ""Scenes from an Execution"", ""Victory"", ""The Europeans"" and ""The Possibilities"", as well as being a founding member, primary playwright and stage designer for British theatre company The Wrestling School. Barker has coined the term ""Theatre of Catastrophe"" to describe his work. His plays often explore violence, sexuality, the desire for power, and human"
"London stage. He also adapted the Harold Brighouse play 'Hobson's Choice' for the screen in 1954. He died in Norwich on 19 February 1964. Wynyard Browne Wynyard Barry Browne (6 October 1911 – 19 February 1964) was an English dramiatist and playwright. He was born in London in 1911, and educated at Marlborough and Christ's College, Cambridge. His plays include 'The Holly and the Ivy', which was first produced at the Duchess Theatre in London in 1950 and was later made into a film, for which he wrote the screenplay. His first play was 'Dark Summer' and other works include"
"Haughtoun, Haulton, Howghton, Horton, Harton, and Harvghton—a fine example of the famously flexible Elizabethan orthography. His name is spelled Houghton in his 1605 will.) A merry comedy entitled ""Englishmen for My Money, or A Woman will have her Will"" (1598) is ascribed to his sole authorship, and Fleay credits him with a considerable share in ""Patient Grissel"" (1599). The latter attribution has been confirmed and refined by W. L. Halstead and by Cyrus Hoy (1980), giving the subplot concerning Sir Owen the Welsh Knight and his wife Gwenthyan, as well as that concerning the Duke's sister Julia and her three"
"at the age of 66. B. C. Stephenson Benjamin Charles Stephenson or B. C. Stephenson (1839 – 22 January 1906) was an English dramatist, lyricist and librettist. After beginning a career in the civil service, he started to write for the theatre, using the pen name ""Bolton Rowe"". He was author or co-author of several long-running shows of the Victorian theatre. His biggest hit was the comic opera ""Dorothy"", which set records for the length of its original run. His writing collaborators included Clement Scott and Brandon Thomas, and composers with whom he worked included Frederic Clay, Alfred Cellier and"
"of Alice Hobson in the London production of ""Hobson’s Choice: A Lancashire Comedy"" in 1916 at the Apollo Theatre. Bilbrook married the actor Reginald Owen in 1909; they divorced in 1923. In 1923 Lydia married George Harrison Brown, a journalist known as 'HB', after the birth of his daughter, Blossom, who was registered as the daughter of Reginald Owen. It is believed Blossom died in 1927. HB and Lydia's second daughter Felicity was born in 1928. In April 1939 Lydia and Felicity went to live in Santa Monica Canyon, close to Reginald Owen and a community of expatriate British actors."
"""The Last English King"" by Julian Rathbone, ""Warriors of the Dragon Gold"" by Ray Bryant, and the novel ""God's Concubine"" by Sara Douglass. The one-act play ""A Choice of Kings"" by John Mortimer deals with his deception by William after his shipwreck. Cultural depictions of Harold Godwinson Fictional accounts based on the events surrounding Harold Godwinson's brief reign as king of England have been published, notably the play ""Harold"", by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in 1876; and the novel ""Last of the Saxon Kings"", by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, in 1848. Rudyard Kipling wrote a short story, included in his 1910 collection, ""Rewards"
"of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles. Halliwell Hobbes Halliwell Hobbes (16 November 1877 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire20 February 1962 in Santa Monica, California) was an English actor. The future actor was born Herbert Halliwell Hobbes, the son of William Albert Hobbes (1841-1909), a Warwickshire solicitor, and his wife, Marion Hobbes, nee Dennis, (1838-1925). His stage debut was as a member of Frank Benson's company in 1898, playing in Shakespearean rep alongside actors such as Ellen Terry and Mrs Patrick Campbell. His earliest American work was as an actor and director from 1906, before moving to Hollywood in early 1929 (aged"
"""Indian Ink"" by Tom Stoppard in 1995 after originally playing the character's son, and had appeared in ""Murmuring Judges"" (Royal National Theatre, 1991), one of the plays in David Hare's trilogy examining British institutions. At the time of the actor's early death, Michael Billington admitted to most ""treasuring"" Bhattacharjee's performance as Hari Hobson in a version of ""Hobson's Choice"". The adaptation of the original Harold Brighouse play by Tanika Gupta, produced at the Young Vic theatre in 2003, transposed the characters to contemporary Salford's Asian business community. In his contemporary review, Billington observed that in the role he ""captures both"
"was a fellow student at Christ's College, Cambridge, on whom the influence of the Metaphysical style was more lasting. In Milton's case, there is an understandable difference in the way he matched his style to his subjects. For the ‘Nativity Ode’ and commendatory poem on Shakespeare he deployed Baroque conceits, while his two poems on the carrier Thomas Hobson were a succession of high-spirited paradoxes. What was then titled “An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramaticke Poet, W. Shakespeare” was included anonymously among the poems prefacing the second folio publication of Shakespeare's plays in 1632. The poems on Thomas Hobson were"
"are set locally in Northern England, but represent universal aspects of human nature. Other writers who had an influence on him were George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and St John Hankin. A collection of material relating to Houghton, including unpublished plays and photographs, is held in the University of Salford. Stanley Houghton William Stanley Houghton (22 February 1881 – 11 December 1913) was an English playwright. He was a prominent member, together with Allan Monkhouse and Harold Brighouse, of a group known as the Manchester School of dramatists. His best known play is ""Hindle Wakes"" which was written in 1910"
"B. C. Stephenson Benjamin Charles Stephenson or B. C. Stephenson (1839 – 22 January 1906) was an English dramatist, lyricist and librettist. After beginning a career in the civil service, he started to write for the theatre, using the pen name ""Bolton Rowe"". He was author or co-author of several long-running shows of the Victorian theatre. His biggest hit was the comic opera ""Dorothy"", which set records for the length of its original run. His writing collaborators included Clement Scott and Brandon Thomas, and composers with whom he worked included Frederic Clay, Alfred Cellier and Sir Arthur Sullivan with whom"
"John Hoadly (playwright) John Hoadly (1711–1776) was an English cleric, known as a poet and dramatist. Born in Broad Street, London, on 8 October 1711, he was the youngest son of Bishop Benjamin Hoadly by his wife Sarah Curtis. After attending Newcome's school at Hackney, where he played the part of Phocyas in John Hughes's ""Siege of Damascus"",’ he was sent in 1730 to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. At about the same time he entered the Middle Temple in order to qualify for the bar. Having graduated LL.B. in 1735 Hoadly decided to become a clergyman, a career in which"
"Frederick Hobson Leslie Frederick George Hobson, known as Fred Leslie (1 April 1855 – 7 December 1892), was an English actor, singer, comedian and dramatist. Beginning his career in operetta, Leslie became best known for starring in, and writing (under the pseudonym A. C. Torr, a pun on the word ""actor""), popular burlesque plays and other comic works of theatre. Leslie was born in Woolwich, London. He was the youngest son of Charles Hobson, a wealthy military outfitter, and Sarah Hobson, ""née"" Pye. Leslie was educated in Woolwich, Lewisham and Pas-de-Calais. As a young man, he performed in amateur plays"
"by Jacobus Houbraken after George Knapton (NPG D18752). Hildebrand Jacob Hildebrand Jacob (1692 or 1693–1739) was a British poet and playwright, whose major works include the epic poem ""Brutus the Trojan"" and the tragic verse drama ""The Fatal Constancy"". His collected Works were published in 1735. His father was Sir John Jacob, third baronet of Bromley, Middlesex (c.1665–1740) and his mother was Dorothy (c.1662–1749). Sir John served in the army from 1685 to 1702, seeing action at the Battle of Killiecrankie and in Ireland. Following his father, Hildebrand served in the army until at least 1715, then in 1717 he"
"Flora Robson Dame Flora McKenzie Robson, (28 March 19027 July 1984) was an English actress and star of the theatrical stage and cinema, particularly renowned for her performances in plays demanding dramatic and emotional intensity. Her range extended from queens to murderesses. Robson was born in South Shields, County Durham, of Scottish descent to a family of six siblings. Many of her forebears were engineers, mostly in shipping. Her father was a ship's engineer who moved from Wallsend near Newcastle to Palmers Green in 1907 and Southgate in 1910, both in north London, and later to Welwyn Garden City. She"
"""A great leap in the dark,"" uttered in his final conscious moments. His body was interred in St John the Baptist's Church, Ault Hucknall, in Derbyshire. Thomas Hobbes Thomas Hobbes (; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679), in some older texts Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, was an English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book ""Leviathan"", which expounded an influential formulation of social contract theory. In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, jurisprudence, geometry, the physics"