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AQA GCSE English Literature
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An Inspector Calls
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AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
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The contexts of An Inspector Calls: the play set in 1912 and first performed in 1945, class and capitalism before the First World War,
the Titanic and the coming wars, Priestley's socialism and the post-war welfare state, and the role of women.
The 1945 audience: the Labour victory that year and the welfare state that followed.
Priestley's interest in time (J. W. Dunne's theory), and the morality play tradition, for the ending.
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