Context — An Inspector Calls — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Context
Introduction
What you need to know
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.
Eduqas's essay on this text marks your response and your analysis of language, form and structure, not context: use context only where it helps an interpretation, and treat the printed extract as a starting point for an essay on the whole play.
