Iphigenia

Abstract

‘Iphigenia’ is the beginning of a play by Sylvia Townsend Warner. The typescript, held in the Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland Archive at the Dorset History Centre in Dorchester, is dated 1947 and comprises seven typed pages. The play is set in a villa in the Azores in 1947, where a group of Nazi soldiers, thinking they are isolated from the rest of the world by an electric barrier, pass the time of day, listen to propaganda on the wireless and speculate about the history of the Jews.