Fortune's Fool.
Joe Brearley taught English with inspiration, never without a sense of theatre and rarely without an idea of fun.
Among those influenced by his teaching were the renowned internationally acclaimed playwright and Nobel Laureate, Harold Pinter and his friend Henry Woolf who were taught to love the English language, through rehearsal and performance, in poetry and Joe's play productions whilst at the (now closed) Hackney Downs School.
Following his retirement he moved to Germany and to conserve his pension took a job teaching English in a German School.
Book Contents
Introduction by Harold Pinter
Foreword by the Editor
Chapters and Illustrations
The Finding of the Golden Flower
... Springtime with the Nazis
... The Twenty Neutral Years
... The Echoing Voice
... Confrontation with the Unconscious
Retirement and a new life
... Old Friends
... New Friends, New Plans
... A state of flux
... Old relationships challengedCorrespondence with Bill Duff
... The Listener
Joe's last monthsAnd a last letter to Les Mitchell
... Health ReportBurial Services and tributes
Some letters to Harold Pinter
Postscript
This is an original edition paperback - 591 pages including photographs.
Date of Publication 15 March 2008.
Publisher Twig Books
Language English
Dimensions 28 x 21 x 3.1 cm
ISBN 978 0 9547236 82