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William Stanley Houghton (22 February 1881 – 11 December 1913) was an English playwright. He was a prominent member, together with Allan Monkhouse and Harold Brighouse, of a group known as the Manchester School of dramatists.
Jun 6, 2024 · Stanley Houghton. (1881—1913) playwright. Quick Reference. (1881–1913), playwright and drama critic, born in Manchester, where he worked in the cotton trade while pursuing his passion for the theatre. The Dear Departed (1908) was performed by Miss Horniman's Repertory Theatre.
May 4, 2022 · This month we explore the recently digitised Stanley Houghton Collection held by the University of Salford and made accessible on Salford Digital Archives. 2022 marks 110 years since the first performance of Houghton’s best-known dramatic work, Hindle Wakes.
Hindle Wakes is a stage play by Stanley Houghton written in 1910. It was first performed in 1912. [1] Plot. The play is set in the fictional mill town of Hindle in Lancashire in England, and concerns two young persons, Fanny Hawthorn and Alan Jeffcote, who are discovered to be having illicit sex during the town's wakes week.
W. Stanley Houghton is one of these forgotten playwrights who made an important contribution to English drama. Since his death at the age of only thirty-two, in 1913, his name has gradually faded from memory, although his most famous play, Hindle Wakes (1912), remains familiar.
- Paul Mortimer
- 1985
Stanley Houghton Biography. (1881–1913), The Dear Departed, The Younger Generation, The Perfect Cure, Hindle Wakes. British playwright, born in Cheshire, educated at Manchester Grammar School. He went into his father's cotton business, hoping eventually to become a professional writer.
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Independent Means is a stage play written by Stanley Houghton, a leading member of the Manchester School of dramatists. The play was Houghton's first professional full-length play which was written in 1908.
