The Gold Standard
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‘Money is the root of all happiness.’ So begins John Banville’s elaborate drama, ‘The Gold Standard’, which centres on John Maynard Keynes, whose theories changed the policies and practices of governments. It comes to life, however, in its depiction of his social circle and their ‘tangled lives’. A member of the Bloomsbury Set, Keynes enjoyed relationships with the artist Duncan Grant and Lytton Strachey before he married the Russian ballerina, Lydia Lopokova, scornfully castigated by Virginia Woolf and others for her manners and humble social status. Among other things, it is a play about snobbery and meanness to an outsider who takes away ‘one of their own’.
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‘Money is the root of all happiness.’ So begins John Banville’s elaborate drama, The Gold Standard, which centres on John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) whose theories changed the policies and practices of governments. It comes to life, however, in its depiction of his social circle and their ‘tangled lives’. A member of the Bloomsbury Set, Keynes enjoyed relationships with the artist Duncan Grant and Lytton Strachey before he married the Russian ballerina, Lydia Lopokova, scornfully castigated by Virginia Woolf and others for her manners and humble social status. Among other things, it is a play about snobbery and meanness to an outsider who takes away ‘one of their own’.
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| Dimensions | 21 cm |
|---|---|
| Book_author | Banville, John |
| Publisher | The Gallery Press |
| Imprint | Gallery Books |
| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 120 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | |
| Dewey | 822.92 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
