Terence Rattigan (1911–1977)
Autore di The Winslow Boy
Sull'Autore
Rattigan, who had been a playwright since leaving Oxford University at the age of 22, boasted of his workmanship---"I believe sloppy construction, untidy technique, and lack of craftsmanship to be great faults"---and of his ability to please the British playgoer, the archetypical "Aunt Edna," a mostra altro "middle-class, middle-aged maiden lady with time on her hands." Not surprisingly, he fell out of favor in the Britain of the 1960s. (He had never been particularly popular in the United States, which looked on his work as inspirationally lacking.) At the time of his death, criticism, still taking him at his word, faintly praised Rattigan's expositions, his management of interleaving characters (as in Separate Tables, 1954), and his artful episodic development in Ross (1960). But Darlow and Hodson's revelations of Rattigan's tormented personal life have helped readers acknowledge that, despite imposed or sentimental endings, his plays are often full of genuine anguish---in the relations of parents and children (Man and Boy, 1963) and obsessed lovers (The Deep Blue Sea, 1952), and in recognition of weakness that vitiates heroism (Ross, 1960, which is based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. And revivals of the 1948 play The Browning Version (at the National Theatre) and of The Winslow Boy (1946) moved the critic Harold Hobson to concede that "there are many things in Rattigan that have not yet been properly perceived." (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Terence Rattigan
The Deep Blue Sea With Three Other Plays: Harlequinade; Adventure Story; The Browning Version (1955) 16 copie
Ross (Playbill) [Vol 6 No 17] 1 copia
Table Number Seven 1 copia
Table by the Window 1 copia
Heart To Heart 1 copia
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The world of law; a treasury of great writing about and in the law, short stories, plays, essays, accounts, letters,… (1960) — Collaboratore — 54 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Rattigan, Terence
- Nome legale
- Ratigan, Sir Terence Mervyn
- Data di nascita
- 1911-06-10
- Data di morte
- 1977-11-30
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England, UK
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Hamilton, Bermuda
- Istruzione
- Harrow School
University of Oxford (Trinity College) - Attività lavorative
- playwright
screenwriter - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1958)
knighthood (1971)
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Discussioni
Drama on 3 in All the World's a Stage (Giugno 2015)
Drama in BBC Radio 3 Listeners (Mag 2013)
Recensioni
The Day will Dawn 🎥 di Harold French
Horse race tipster and journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Norway his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat. However, when he tells the Navy about it, they don’t believe him, and to make matters worse, he is removed from his job. When German forces invade Norway, Metcalfe returns determined to uncover what is going on and stop the Germans in their tracks. (fonte: imdb)
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