The Browning Version

The Browning Version is a poignant one-act play by Terence Rattigan set in an English public school, where retiring classics teacher Andrew Crocker-Harris confronts the end of his career and the bleakness of a loveless marriage. When a thoughtful pupil, John Taplow, gives him a farewell copy of Aeschylus' Agamemnon, the so-called Browning version, it prompts Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate the disappointments and humiliations that have shaped his life.