Terence Rattigan (1911–1977)
Auteur de The Winslow Boy
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus "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) afficher moins
Œuvres de Terence Rattigan
The Collected Plays of Terence Rattigan, Volume Two: The Later Plays 1953-1977 (2001) 18 exemplaires
The Collected Plays of Terence Rattigan, Volume One: The Early Plays 1936-1952 (2001) 17 exemplaires
The Deep Blue Sea With Three Other Plays: Harlequinade; Adventure Story; The Browning Version (1955) 16 exemplaires
The Collected Plays Of Terence Rattigan, Volume Three 4 exemplaires
Ross (Playbill) [Vol 6 No 17] 1 exemplaire
Mesas Separadas / Mar Azul Profundo 1 exemplaire
Table Number Seven 1 exemplaire
Table by the Window 1 exemplaire
Heart To Heart 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The world of law; a treasury of great writing about and in the law, short stories, plays, essays, accounts, letters,… (1960) — Contributeur — 54 exemplaires
Twenty One-Act Plays: An Anthology for Amateur Performing Groups (1978) — Contributeur — 36 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Rattigan, Terence
- Nom légal
- Ratigan, Sir Terence Mervyn
- Date de naissance
- 1911-06-10
- Date de décès
- 1977-11-30
- Lieu de sépulture
- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England, UK
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Hamilton, Bermuda
- Études
- Harrow School
University of Oxford (Trinity College) - Professions
- playwright
screenwriter - Prix et distinctions
- Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1958)
knighthood (1971)
Membres
Discussions
Drama on 3 à All the World's a Stage (Juin 2015)
Drama à BBC Radio 3 Listeners (Mai 2013)
Critiques
Separate Tables par Delbert Mann
2023 movie #54. 1958. David Niven won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of a fake major living in a long term residence hotel on the English seashore. He comes to disgrace after being arrested for 'nudging' a young lady at the cinema. God performance by Lancaster as well.
A slightly strange story about the last day of term in a boys' public school in the 1950s. In black and white. The unpopular classics master is leaving; his colleagues and students see him as unemotional, almost 'dead' emotionally, but his real self emerges in various ways.
We meet his unbelievably ghastly wife, a boy in his class who's fairly empathic and also quite likes classics, a colleague who has been conducting an affair with his wife, and more.
The acting is good, in a 1950s kind of way, once you get past the pseudo-BBC accents. The directing is good too. The people are believable and the flow of the film works well.
But it's rather a depressing story without any clear conclusion. We are unlikely to watch it again.… (plus d'informations)
We meet his unbelievably ghastly wife, a boy in his class who's fairly empathic and also quite likes classics, a colleague who has been conducting an affair with his wife, and more.
The acting is good, in a 1950s kind of way, once you get past the pseudo-BBC accents. The directing is good too. The people are believable and the flow of the film works well.
But it's rather a depressing story without any clear conclusion. We are unlikely to watch it again.… (plus d'informations)
Several rich people have a delayed flight.
1.5/4 (Meh).
It's a horrendously badly-written melodrama, about entirely unlikable characters who create their own problems.
(Apr. 2021)
1.5/4 (Meh).
It's a horrendously badly-written melodrama, about entirely unlikable characters who create their own problems.
(Apr. 2021)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 50
- Aussi par
- 8
- Membres
- 948
- Popularité
- #27,125
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 18
- ISBN
- 120
- Langues
- 4
- Favoris
- 3