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An Inspector Calls is a modern morality play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in the Soviet Union in 1945 and at the New Theatre in London the following year. It is one of Priestley's best-known works for the stage and is considered to be one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre.
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In An Inspector Calls, J.B. Priestley presents an unconventional approach to the traditional whodunit of detective fiction, resisting the trope in which an investigator interviews suspects to determine which character committed the crime, often a murder.
An Inspector Calls is a memorable play from the mid-1940s, written by the popular English dramatist J.B. Priestley. Partly both philosophical and psychological, partly a moral fable, it is one of Priestley's best known works for the stage.
The following text, by Dr John Baxendale, is a programme essay for a production Of An Inspector Calls at the Canadian Shaw Festival, 2008. An Inspector Calls is about the death of a young woman. But it is not a whodunnit – at least, not of the conventional, forensic kind.
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