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Dramas written by English author J. B. Priestley

The English author J. B. Priestley wrote a number of dramas during the 1930s and 40s, which have come to be known as his Time Plays.^[1] They are so called because each constructs its plot around a particular concept of time.

In the plays, various theories of time become a central theatrical device of the play, the characters' lives being affected by how they react to the unusual temporal landscape they encounter.^[2]

The Time Plays comprise:

• Dangerous Corner (1932), in which exposure of a group of characters' dark secrets is wiped out when the play returns to the beginning at the fall of the curtain;
• Time and the Conways (1937), which explores J.

  W. Dunne's theory of simultaneous time expounded in the book An Experiment with Time;

• I Have Been Here Before, which is inspired by P. D. Ouspensky's theory of eternal recurrence from A New Model of the Universe;[3]