Rope
Author: first_name: Patrick
last_name: Hamilton 
Language: English
Year: 1929

Also known as <i>Rope’s End</i>, the thriller <i>Rope</i> is a play by Patrick Hamilton, novelist, playwright, and well-regarded contemporary of Graham Greene and J. B. Priestley. The source for Alfred Hitchock’s movie of the same name, this was one of Hamilton’s most successful plays (the other being <i>Gaslight</i>).

Two university students (Brandon and Granillo), obsessed with proving their intellectual superiority, host a party for some friends.

All three acts take place in the same ro