Hobson's choice (disambiguation)
Encyclopedia
A Hobson's choice
is one that must be taken or left.
The term may refer to:
Films, plays, and ballets
In literature
Places
Hobson's choice
A Hobson's choice is a free choice in which only one option is offered. As a person may refuse to take that option, the choice is therefore between taking the option or not; "take it or leave it". The phrase is said to originate with Thomas Hobson , a livery stable owner in Cambridge, England...
is one that must be taken or left.
The term may refer to:
Films, plays, and ballets
- Hobson's Choice (play), by Harold Brighouse (1915), which has been adapted numerous times:
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- Hobson's Choice (1920 film)Hobson's Choice (1920 film)Hobson's Choice is a 1920 British comedy drama film directed by Percy Nash and starring Joe Nightingale, Joan Ritz and Arthur Pitt. A Salford bootmaker is irritated to learn his daughter is to marry one of his cobblers, and his outrage grows when they set up a successful shop which challenges his...
, a silent film - Hobson's Choice (1931 film)Hobson's Choice (1931 film)Hobson's Choice is a 1931 British comedy drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring James Harcourt, Viola Lyel, Frank Pettingell and Herbert Lomas. A coarse bootshop owner is outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler...
- Hobson's Choice (1954 film), directed by David Lean
- Hobson's Choice (1983 film), a TV movie version
- Hobson's Choice, a ballet by David BintleyDavid BintleyDavid Bintley, CBE, is a former English ballet dancer, the current artistic director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet and co-artistic director of the New National Theatre Tokyo ballet company.- About :...
- Hobson's Choice (1920 film)
In literature
- "Hobson's Choice", a 1952 short story written by Alfred BesterAlfred BesterAlfred Bester was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books...
- The Terminal ExperimentThe Terminal ExperimentThe Terminal Experiment is a science fiction novel by Canadian novelist Robert J. Sawyer. The book won the 1995 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996....
, a 1995 science fiction novel originally serialised under the title Hobson's Choice
Places
- Hobson's Choice (Woodbine, Maryland)Hobson's Choice (Woodbine, Maryland)Hobson's Choice, is an historic home located at Woodbine, Howard County, Maryland. It is a five-bay, two-and-a-half-story rectangular brick house built about 1830, with a low-pitched gable roof and a recent low two-story frame rear wing...
, listed on the NRHP in Howard County, Maryland - Hobson's Choice (Alberta, Virginia), listed on the NRHP in Brunswick County, Virginia
- Hobson's Choice (San Francisco, California), a bar in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury neighborhood