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The Case for Terence Rattigan, Playwright

Author : John A. Bertolini
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319409972
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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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.

Terence Rattigan

Author : Peter Wolfe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781498598736
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Terence Rattigan written by Peter Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terence Rattigan examines the ways in which Rattigan's works turn audiences into participants, encouraging intellectual independence and freeing them to decide for themselves the deeper meanings of the works. It examines the unique methods by which he conveys meaning to audiences within a changing sociocultural context.

The Winslow Boy

Author : Terence Rattigan
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822212645
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book The Winslow Boy written by Terence Rattigan and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1973 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: What begins as a small incident ultimately grows into a cause celebre nearly shaking the foundations of the government. The incident is simply that of a youngster in an English government school who is expelled for an alleged theft. As

Cause Célèbre

Author : Terence Rattigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Cause Célèbre written by Terence Rattigan and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terence Rattigan's 'Cause Célèbre' is a drama based on the real-life story of Alma Rattenbury, who in 1935 went on trial with her eighteen-year-old lover for the murder of her husband. Rattigan originally wrote the play for radio, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 27 October 1975.

Terence Rattigan

Author : Peter Wolfe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498598749
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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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.

French Without Tears

Author : Terence Rattigan
Publisher : Baker's Plays
ISBN 13 : 9780573011443
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book French Without Tears written by Terence Rattigan and published by Baker's Plays. This book was released on 1937 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Miramar, a villa in a small seaside town on the west coast of France, a group of young men have gathered, ostensibly to learn French. Diana Lake proves a major distraction, manipulating the affections of one after another.Written in 1936.

The Deep Blue Sea

Author : Terence Rattigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848422346
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Deep Blue Sea written by Terence Rattigan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rattigan's greatest play, reissued alongside Terence Davies' 2011 film version, is a true masterpiece of 20th century drama.

The Art of Concealment

Author : Giles Cole
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849435472
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Concealment written by Giles Cole and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terence Rattigan was once regarded as the golden boy of the West End stage but he suffered a sudden and catastrophic fall from favour in the mid-1950s. In this new play, written to mark the centenary of Rattigan’s birth, he is 66 years old, in failing health, and waiting for the curtain to rise on his last play, Cause Célèbre. The Art of Concealment is not only about the demons that haunted one of our great playwrights but about the creative process itself, the loss of youth, the pain of love and the shallowness of fame. How does a playwright judge his own life? Can it be crafted, restructured, or does he have a duty to be honest, finally, about himself? The play received critical acclaim during a sell-out run at the Jermyn Street Theatre in London.

The Browning Version

Author : Terence Rattigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781854597106
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book The Browning Version written by Terence Rattigan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rattigan's well-loved play about an unpopular schoolmaster who snatches a last shred of dignity from the collapse of his career and his marriage. Twice filmed (with Michael Redgrave and Albert Finney) and frequently revived. Andrew Crocker-Harris' wife Millie has become embittered and fatigued by her husband's lack of passion and ambition. On the verge of retirement, and divorce, Andrew is forced to come to terms with the platitude his life has become. Then John Taplow, a previously unnoticed pupil, gives Andrew an unexpected parting gift: a second-hand copy of Robert Browning's translation of Agamemnon - a gift which offers not only a opportunity for redemption, but the chance to gain back some dignity. This volume also contains Harlequinade, a farce about a touring theatre troupe, written to accompany The Browning Version in a double-bill under the joint title, Playbill. 'Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan' Michael Billington This edition includes an authoritative introduction, biographical sketch and chronology.

Man and Boy

Author : Terence Rattigan
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0573612145
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Man and Boy written by Terence Rattigan and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the Great Depression, ruthless financier Gregor Antonescu's business is dangerously close to crumbling. In order to escape the wolves at his door, Gregor tracks down his estranged son Basil in the hopes of using his Greenwich Village apartment as a base to make a company-saving deal. Can this reunion help them reconcile? Or will this corrupt father use his only son as a pawn in one last power play? A gripping story about family, success and what we're willing to sacrifice for both.

The Rattigan Version

Author : Bertram A. Young
Publisher : Atheneum Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rattigan Version written by Bertram A. Young and published by Atheneum Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Terence Rattigan

Author : Michael Darlow
Publisher : Quartet Books (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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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.

First Episode

Author : Terence Rattigan
Publisher : Nick Hern Books
ISBN 13 : 9781848421639
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book First Episode written by Terence Rattigan and published by Nick Hern Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publication coincides with a swelling tide of revivals to celebrate Rattigan's centenary.

British Theatre Since the War

Author : Dominic Shellard
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300147910
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book British Theatre Since the War written by Dominic Shellard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British theatre of the past fifty years has been brilliant, varied, and controversial, encompassing invigorating indigenous drama, politically didactic writing, the formation of such institutions as the National Theatre, the exporting of musicals worldwide from the West End, and much more. This entertaining and authoritative book is the first comprehensive account of British theatre in this period. Dominic Shellard moves chronologically through the half-century, discussing important plays, performers, directors, playwrights, critics, censors, and agents as well as the social, political, and financial developments that influenced the theatre world. Drawing on previously unseen material (such as the Kenneth Tynan archives), first-hand testimony, and detailed research, Shellard tackles several long-held assumptions about drama of the period. He questions the dominance of Look Back in Anger in the 1950s, arguing that much of the theatre of the ten years prior to its premiere in 1956 was vibrant and worthwhile. He suggests that theatre criticism, theatre producers, and such institutions as the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company have played key roles in the evolution of recent drama. And he takes a fresh look at the work of Terence Rattigan, Harold Pinter, Joe Orton, Alan Ayckbourn, Timberlake Wertenbaker, and other significant playwrights of the modern era. The book will be a valuable resource not only for students of theatre history but also for any theatre enthusiast.

After the Dance

Author : Terence Rattigan
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9781854592170
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book After the Dance written by Terence Rattigan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critically acclaimed drama by one of England's most successful mid-century playwrights.

1956 and All That

Author : Dan Rebellato
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113465782X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book 1956 and All That written by Dan Rebellato and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is said that British Drama was shockingly lifted out of the doldrums by the 'revolutionary' appearance of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in May 1956. But had the theatre been as ephemeral and effeminate as the Angry Young Men claimed? Was the era of Terence Rattigan and 'Binkie' Beaumont as repressed and closeted as it seems? In this bold and fascinating challenge to the received wisdom of the last forty years of theatrical history, Dan Rebellato uncovers a different story altogether. It is one where Britain's declining Empire and increasing panic over the 'problem' of homosexuality played a crucial role in the construction of an enduring myth of the theatre. By going back to primary sources and rigorously questioning all assumptions, Rebellato has rewritten the history of the Making of Modern British Drama.

Terence Rattigan: A Biography

Author : Geoffrey Wansell
Publisher : Oberon Books
ISBN 13 : 9781840028386
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Terence Rattigan: A Biography written by Geoffrey Wansell and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 480 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