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The Land of Promise (1913) - W. Somerset Maugham
The Land of Promise. A Comedy in Four Acts (London: Heinemann, 1922)The Land of Promise is a play by W. Somerset Maugham, written after his trip to the Western prairies of Canada in 1912, especially for gathering materials after the insinuation of Charles Frohman, who wanted his most popular dramatist to write something along the line of Taming of the Shrew. [1]
The play was first produced on 26 February 1914 at the Duke of York's Theatre. The first and second editions, for copyright purp…