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Section 1: Part One, Prologue and Act One

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Lopez, Matthew. The Inheritance. Faber & Faber, 2020. Paperback.

• The Inheritance is a play in two parts of three acts each.

• The play's title page indicates that the play was inspired by E. M. Forster's novel Howards End.

• An epigraph precedes Part One: it is the poem fragment "Hidden," by Constantine Cavafy.

• The speaker of Cavafy's poem asserts that their public words and actions are not as revealing as their private actions and writings are, because social pressure creates an obstacle to living freely and authentically.

• The speaker hopes that someday society will change and people will have the freedom to express their authentic selves.

• The play's prologue begins with stage directions: a few young men are seated, writing, and to one side Young Man 1 sits by himself.

• The young...

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