Peter Grimes. A Dramatization of the Poems by George Crabbe in 'The Borough'.

Paperback original. 12mo. 115pp. Paper wraps.

Ex-Library. With the usual rubber stamps and markings on prelims. and fore-edges. Library bookplate on front pastedown. Paper wrappers covered in protective, adhesive plastic, with library label attached to lower spine.

A dramatization of George Crabbe's The Borough (1810), a series of long descriptive poems in heroic couplets – of which Peter Grimes forms part – about life in a small town not unlike Aldeburgh. According to his son, during his time as a surgeon in this Suffolk sea-side town, Crabbe had known a fisherman who had had a succession of apprentices from London who had disappeared "under circumstances of strong suspicion". The play incorporates material from Benjamin Britten's 1945 opera Peter Grimes, a work which Marland – a charismatic headteacher and author of a seminal teaching manual – much admired.