Denis Johnston’s Nine Rivers from Jordan: A Centenary View
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Nine Rivers from Jordan – The Chronicle of a Journey and a Search is Denis Johnston’s autobiographical record of World War II, during which the dramatist worked as radio correspondent for the BBC. His post-war and last original plays – A Fourth for Bridge and The Scythe and The Sunset – somehow echo his war experience and his reflections on the global conflict. The object of this article is to describe and analyze Nine Rivers from Jordan and its reverberations in Denis Johnston’s last plays, for these texts are, in many ways, representative of the playwright’s view of humanity, life and history.
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