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Caryl Brahms (1901–1982)

Auteur de No Bed for Bacon

33 oeuvres 793 utilisateurs 22 critiques 1 Favoris

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(eng) Do not combine this page with that of S.J. Simon, or Simon & Brahms' joint author pages.

Séries

Œuvres de Caryl Brahms

No Bed for Bacon (1941) 236 exemplaires
A Bullet in the Ballet (1937) 166 exemplaires
Don't, Mr. Disraeli! (1940) 71 exemplaires
Casino for Sale (1938) 58 exemplaires
Six Curtains for Stroganova (1946) 39 exemplaires
Titania Has a Mother (1944) 21 exemplaires
No Nightingales (1944) 19 exemplaires
Envoy on Excursion (1988) 18 exemplaires
Trottie True (1947) 13 exemplaires
Footnotes to the Ballet (1938) 11 exemplaires
You were there (1950) 10 exemplaires
To Hell with Hedda (1947) 9 exemplaires
The Elephant is White (1954) 9 exemplaires

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Partage des connaissances

Nom légal
Abrahams, Doris Caroline
Autres noms
Brahms, Caryl
Date de naissance
1901-12-08
Date de décès
1982-12-05
Sexe
female
Nationalité
UK
Lieu de naissance
Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
Lieu du décès
London, England, UK
Lieux de résidence
London, Ebgland, UK
Études
Royal Academy of Music
Minerva College, Leicestershire
Professions
Writer
journalist
theater critic
ballet critic
historical novelist
short story writer (tout afficher 7)
poet
Courte biographie
Caryl Brahms was the pen name of Doris Caroline Abrahams, born to an Anglo-Jewish family in Croydon, Surrey. She was educated at Minerva College, Leicestershire, and studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She wrote light verse for the Academy student magazine, and then was published in the The Evening Standard. She adopted her pseudonym so her parents would not learn of her professional activities, as they wished her to marry instead. In 1930, she published her first book, a slim volume of poems for children, The Moon on My Left, illustrated by Anna Zinkeisen. She met S.J. Simon (Simon Jacobovitch Skidelsky) when they were fellow lodgers in a house in London, and recruited him to help her with some satirical cartoon stories for the Evening Standard. In the 1930s and 1940s, they collaborated on a series of successful comic mystery novels set in the world of dance, and humorous "backstairs history" novels set in various periods of English history. Their work was adapted for stage, radio, television and films. The duo also produced several collections of short stories. At the same time, Caryl worked as a ballet critic for leading newspapers, including The Daily Telegraph. In 1943, she published an independent biography of dancer Robert Helpmann. Later she concentrated on reviewing for the theater.

After S.J. Simon's sudden death in 1948, she wrote solo for some years, but in the 1950s she established a second long-running collaboration with writer and broadcaster Ned Sherrin, which lasted for the rest of her life. They wrote plays and musicals for the stage and television, and published both fiction and nonfiction books.
Notice de désambigüisation
Do not combine this page with that of S.J. Simon, or Simon & Brahms' joint author pages.

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Anton Palook is shot on stage while dancing the role of Petrushka in the ballet of the same name. Inspector Quill is assigned to investigate the murder.

Not as funny as I remember from reading it as a teenager but still very enjoyable.
 
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Robertgreaves | 2 autres critiques | Dec 19, 2021 |
The epigraph page of No Bed for Bacon bears a Warning to Scholars: ‘This book is fundamentally unsound’. It may be so, but it’s both fun and, surely, hugely influential. Written in the course of several frenzied months in 1940, this historical farce imagines the London of Queen Elizabeth I at just the time that so many parts of the city were being destroyed in the Blitz. The two authors, both of whom were serving as air raid wardens, often had only an hour or so together each day to exchange ideas, and were reduced to leaving cryptic notes for one another in their wardens’ log-book. Though they squabbled passionately, and at one point considered taking out a legal injunction to prevent them ever having to work together again, they managed to produce a work of high British silliness. At its heart is Francis Bacon, an ambitious courtier who wants nothing more than to be awarded one of Gloriana’s beds from her progresses, so that he can pass it down to his heirs as an investment. Across town, the rival impresarios Philip Henslowe and Richard Burbage strive for theatrical domination, while the author Will Shakespeare is struggling to find a suitable opening for his new play Love’s Labours Won. A young aristocrat, Viola Compton, dreams of becoming an actor. And, at court, Sir Walter Raleigh plans for the greatest day of his life: the ceremonial tasting of the first potato from the New World. If only he can find a new cloak elegant enough to wear…

For the full review, please see my blog:
https://theidlewoman.net/2020/06/15/no-bed-for-bacon-caryl-brahms-s-j-simon/
… (plus d'informations)
 
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TheIdleWoman | 9 autres critiques | Mar 15, 2021 |
Of its time, therefore dated, with racial passages that would not be written today and, indeed, came as something of a shock to this reader. However, these can, for the most part, be ignored as they add nothing to the narrative. As a satire I think that many/most of its references would mean nothing to many readers, particularly younger ones.
 
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MikeFARoberts | Aug 14, 2020 |
Take some odd accounting entries by Philip Henslowe, some of the plot lines from "Twelfth Night", a few quotes from Francis Bacon, and a mass of lore from Elizabethan Drama Scholars, old sailors reminiscing about the Armada...and you will spend at least a quarter of an hour howling with laughter. Into the bargain, you will learn a good deal about how hard it was to write Shakespeare's plays, considering the nutcases he had to deal with. . I read it fifty-six years ago, and can still recall the punchlines.… (plus d'informations)
 
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DinadansFriend | 9 autres critiques | Jul 25, 2020 |

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Œuvres
33
Membres
793
Popularité
#32,132
Évaluation
½ 3.5
Critiques
22
ISBN
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Langues
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Favoris
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