On this last day, one student named Taplow, who does not hate Crocker-Harris but feels sorry for him, gives him a small going-away gift – a copy of the translation by Robert Browning of Aeschylus's ancient play Agamemnon. She no longer loves him but instead loves Frank Hunter, another teacher, yet despite having an affair with him she knows that he is not in love with her. Millie Crocker-Harris, his wife, is younger and vivacious and quite different from her husband. Even the school administrators treat him poorly regardless of his long tenure. The students speculate on why he is leaving, but do not much care since despite being academically brilliant, he is generally despised as being strict, stern and humourless. After eighteen years of teaching there, today is his last day before moving on to a position at another school. Plot Īndrew Crocker-Harris is a classics teacher at an English boys' school. The Browning Version is set in a boys' public school and the Classics teacher in the play, Crocker-Harris, is believed to have been based on Rattigan's Classics tutor at Harrow School, It was originally one of two short plays, jointly titled "Playbill" the companion piece being Harlequinade, which forms the second half of the evening. The Browning Version is a play by Terence Rattigan, seen by many as his best work, and first performed on 8 September 1948 at the Phoenix Theatre, London. Taplow, Andrew Crocker-Harris, Frank, Mrs Crocker-Harris Programme for original Broadway production with Maurice Evans & Edna Best
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