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For Services Rendered is a play by Somerset Maugham. First performed in London in 1932, the play is about the effects of World War I on an English family.
Complete summary of W. Somerset Maugham's For Services Rendered. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of For Services Rendered.
20 kwi 2019 · That isn’t the case with W Somerset Maugham’s For Services Rendered. First performed in 1932 the Norwich Player’s current production of it still stings with satire, as it depicts the Ardsley family’s attempts to deal with the spectre of the Great War.
5 paź 2014 · For Services Rendered is moving and successfully portrays the doom of a lost generation, people who are left to fend for their own against the irrevocable changes that society has gone through that render their upbringings useless and inadequate. Maugham reveals their poignancy, frustration, oppressiveness, and helplessness to the full.
When For Services Rendered opened at the Globe Theatre in London in 1932, Somerset Maugham had been heralded as the most successful playwright in England. Maugham was praised for his adept storytelling skills, which had entertained audiences for thirty years.
7 wrz 2013 · Written in 1932, For Services Rendered is Somerset Maugham's incisive state-of-the-nation play – written 15 years on from the end of the First World War. The Ardsley family seem...
For Services Rendered: A Play in Three Acts. William Somerset Maugham. W. Heinemann Limited, 1932 - English drama - 87 pages. The story focuses on the devastating effects of World War I on an...
