Terrorism in howard brenton's magnificence

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Howard Brenton was born in Portsmouth in 1942.

Brenton was the son of Donald Henry and Rose Lilian Lewis Brenton .His mother worked as a shop girl, his father was a gentleman's outfitter who had aspirations to be an actor, but who ended up enrolling as a policeman.

Magnificence (1973) is concerned with terrorism and its destructive results.

The play has two plotlines.

The first is about five far-left revolutionaries who squat an unoccupied house in London.

The second one is about a conservative cabinet MP who loses faith in himself.

The two plotlines converge in the final scene, where Jed (one of the revolutionaries) kills both himself and the MP with plastic explosive.