The ruling class
By: Peter Barnes
Contributors: Barnes, Peter, 1931-2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Description: 'The Ruling Class', premiered at the Nottingham Playhouse in 1968, is a witty, double-edged and idiosyncratic satire. After the 13th Earl of Gurney's morbid nightly indulgence turns into an accidental suicide, the title and estate passes to his son Jack, who has until hitherto been living in a psychiatric institution. He brings with him a belief in divine love, a penchant for sleeping upright on a cross and the conviction that he is the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.
Notes: Previously published in print: in Plays one. London, Methuen Drama, 1996.