Terence Rattigan (1911–1977)
Autor de The Winslow Boy
Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más "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) mostrar menos
Obras de Terence Rattigan
The Deep Blue Sea With Three Other Plays: Harlequinade; Adventure Story; The Browning Version (1955) 16 copias
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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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Rattigan, Terence
- Nombre legal
- Ratigan, Sir Terence Mervyn
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1911-06-10
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1977-11-30
- Lugar de sepultura
- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England, UK
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- London, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Hamilton, Bermuda
- Educación
- Harrow School
University of Oxford (Trinity College) - Ocupaciones
- playwright
screenwriter - Premios y honores
- Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1958)
knighthood (1971)
Miembros
Debates
Drama on 3 en All the World's a Stage (junio 2015)
Drama en BBC Radio 3 Listeners (mayo 2013)
Reseñas
Separate Tables por 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.… (más)
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.… (más)
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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- Obras
- 50
- También por
- 8
- Miembros
- 952
- Popularidad
- #27,037
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 18
- ISBNs
- 120
- Idiomas
- 4
- Favorito
- 3