Download or read book Collected Plays Man and boy A bequest to the nation In praise of love Before dawn Cause celebre written by Terence Rattigan and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Terence Rattigan A Biography written by Geoffrey Wansell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest plays of Terence Rattigan (1911-77) - including The Browning Version, The Deep Blue Sea, Separate Tables and The Winslow Boy - are now established classics. There have been regular revivals of his work, including recent productions in the West End, at Chichester Festival Theatre and by the Peter Hall Company, which makes the first paperback edition of Geoffrey Wansell's acclaimed biography particularly timely. From the heady days of Rattigan's early success to the darker days of his decline in popularity, Wansell paints a captivating portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest theatrical lights. Geoffrey Wansell is vice president of the Terence Rattigan Society: www.theterencerattigansociety.co.uk
Download or read book Twentieth Century Drama written by Simon Trussler and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-04-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of information on all the main events, individuals, political groupings and issues of the 20th century. It provides a guide to current thinking on important historical topics and personalities within the period, and offers a guide to further reading.
Download or read book Terence Rattigan written by Peter Wolfe and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theatrical world Terence Rattigan built is vital but disturbing and uniquely constructed. His sentences are not impacted or fractured, and his plots usually obey a linear time sequence. Yet his realism isn't all that real. Though sentence by sentence, his dialogue sounds natural, the creative pulse behind it is idiosyncratic and self-lacerating. As a gay man writing at a time when homosexuality was a felony in the UK, Rattigan wrote at a skewed angle to his culture, making his plays at times easy to follow but hard to fathom. Terence Rattigan: The Playwright as Battlefield examines the ways in which Rattigan’s works turn their audiences into participants, encouraging intellectual independence and freeing them to make decisions for themselves as to the deeper meanings of the works. The playwright’s omission of outright explanations deepens the audience’s emotional commitment to the outcomes of the performance, and walks a fine line between restraint and invention. His works convey subtly and deceptively the cold obstinacy that thwarts our everyday actions in a way which that is felt viscerally by the audience. This book engages works from throughout Rattigan’s early and late career to examine the unique methods by which the playwright conveys meaning to various audiences within an ever-changing sociocultural context.
Download or read book Terence Rattigan written by Geoffrey Wansell and published by 4th Estate, Limited. This book was released on 1995 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Barrie Gunter provides a broad overview of the methodological perspectives adopted by media researchers in their attempt to derive a better understanding of the nature, role and impact of media in society. By tracing the epistemological and theoretical roots of the major methodological perspectives, Gunter identifies the various schools of social scientific research that have determined the major perspectives in the area. Drawing a distinction between quantitative and qualitative methods, he discusses the relative advantages and disadvantages of each approach, and examines recent trends that signal a convergence of approaches and their associated forms of research. The unique strength of this book is that it discusses the theoretical underpinnings of media research methodologies, and thereby presents a deeper discussion of methodologies than simply whether or not they offer techniques that generate reliable data.
Download or read book British Dramatists Since World War II M Z written by Stanley Weintraub and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Playwrights 1880 1956 written by William W. Demastes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-12-09 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1880 to 1956, when John Osborne transformed the British theater world with Look Back in Anger, British playwrights made numerous lasting contributions and provided a foundation for the innovations of dramatists during the latter half of the 20th century. This reference profiles the life and work of some 40 British playwrights active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many of whom are also known for their work as novelists and poets. Included are figures such as W. H. Auden, Max Beerbohm, Noel Coward, T. S. Eliot, John Galsworthy, Graham Greene, D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde. Each entry provides a biographical overview; a list of major plays and summaries of their critical reception; a list of minor plays, adaptations, and productions; an assessment of the playwright's career; and archival and bibliographical information. Included in this reference book are alphabetically arranged entries for some 40 British playwrights active from 1880 through 1956. Entries are written by expert contributors, with each entry providing a biographical overview; a list of major plays, premieres, and significant revivals, along with a summary of the critical reception of these works; a listing of additional plays, adaptations, and productions; an assessment of the playwright's career and contributions, with reference to published evaluations in magazines, journals, dissertations, and books; a listing of locations housing unpublished archival material, if available; a selected bibliography of the dramatist's published plays and of essays and articles by the playwright on aspects of the theater; a selected bibliography of secondary sources; and, when available, a listing of previously published bibliographies on the playwright.
Download or read book Collected Plays written by Denis Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Case for Terence Rattigan Playwright written by John A. Bertolini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asserts the extraordinary quality of mid-twentieth century playwright Terence Rattigan’s dramatic art and its basis in his use of subtext, implication, and understatement. By discussing every play in chronological order, the book also articulates the trajectory of Rattigan’s darkening vision of the human potential for happiness from his earlier comedies through his final plays in which death appears as a longed for peace. New here is the exploration through close analysis of Rattigan’s style of writing dialogue and speeches, and how that style expresses Rattigan’s sense of life. Likewise, the book newly examines how Rattigan draws on sources in Greek and Roman history, literature, and myth, as well as how he invites comparison with the work of other playwrights, especially Bernard Shaw and Shakespeare. It will appeal broadly to college and university students studying dramatic literature, but also and especially to actors and directors, and the play-going, play-reading public.
Download or read book Contemporary British Dramatists written by Kathryn Ann Berney and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of contemporary British playwrights, written by subject experts.
Download or read book Terence Rattigan written by Michael Darlow and published by Quartet Books (UK). This book was released on 2010 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his lifetime he was a well-known public figure, yet despite his friendships Rattigan always publicly hid his homosexuality. In this biography, Michael Darlow describes this aspect of Rattigan's life and fully considers it in relation to his work.
Download or read book St James Reference Guide to English Literature 20th Century Drama written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Dramatists written by D. L. Kirkpatrick and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical Survey of Drama Mor Sha written by Frank Northen Magill and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Dictionary of Theatre Playwrights written by Mark Hawkins-Dady and published by Chicago : St. James Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dictionary of playwrights which contains 485 entries, each of which includes biographical information on the playwright, complete lists of published works (with dates of performance) and a bibliography of critical studies on the playwright.
Download or read book Cyclopedia of World Authors written by Frank Northen Magill and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
