Bonamy Dobrée 32 min read

A speculative essay imagining the future of the theatre, presented, tongue-in-cheek, as a single chapter of a vast work not to be published in any living reader's lifetime.

Bonamy Dobrée's 1925 booklet is a witty utopian and social-SF speculation on the arts to come. Elegant, playful, learned. Read it for a charming literary jeu d'esprit from a distinguished critic, a mock-scholarly forecast of drama's distant future, part essay, part fantasy, in the clever, urbane style of the To-Day and To-Morrow series of speculative pamphlets.

In its time

Published in 1925, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

32 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).