Shrovetide Memorial
The Stonyhurst College 1930 Production of Journey’s End
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21312762 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin Halligan (0000-0001-6772-8045, University of Wolverhampton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 143 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-46 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Downside Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-5806 • E-ISSN: 2397-3498 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00125806251322101 |
| OpenAlex | W4408369821 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
This article considers a school production of R. C. Sherriff’s 1928 anti-war play Journey’s End, at Stonyhurst College in 1930, under the direction of a Jesuit priest who had served as an army chaplain during the First World War. The production was presented on the occasion of Shrovetide which, the article argues, in tandem with a wider tendency of the beginnings of memorialisations of the war dead, effectively allowed for the production to be read in Catholic liturgical terms. Thus the production is considered as an intervention which sought to concentrate young minds on questions related to religious worship and commitment at the point of a rapidly changing world, and in anticipation of their own pending roles in the Second World War. In these respects, the article concludes, the production anticipated the concerns for liturgical renewal of Vatican II
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Between Entertainment and Elegy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |