In this respect, there is a link back to Woolf’s earlier 1928 novel Orlando, with its fantastical exploration of over three centuries of English history from the age of Queen Elizabeth I to the early twentieth century. The village pageant, organised by Miss La Trobe, is like a sort of ‘2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony’ in that it takes in the various periods of English literary history and presents them on the stage: Shakespeare and the Elizabethans, Restoration comedies, the Victorian age of melodrama, and the present day (i.e. The action of Between the Acts takes place on the day of the village pageant held at the fictional house of Pointz Hall. Before we get to an analysis of the themes of Between the Acts, a brief plot summary – insofar as one can summarise the ‘plot’ of a Virginia Woolf novel – may be helpful.
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