Context

• Suffragette movement

  1903-1908
• Titanic sinks


  1912
• Duke Ferdinand is assassinated

  1914
• ww1 begins

  1914
• Play was first performed in Moscow


  in 1945-1946
• 1901-1914

  Edwardian era / in which the play is set
• Formation of labour party


  1900
• 1945


  cold war begins - USSR consolidates power in Eastern Europe