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Biography

Name: Alan Bennett
Birth Date: May 9, 1934
Place of Birth: Leeds, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: playwright, television writer

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Biography of Alan Bennett
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Although not a prolific playwright, Alan Bennett (born 1934) earned a solid reputation as one of Britain's finest writers for the stage and television. In the summer of 1960 in Edinburgh there burst onto the British theater scene a revue which made...


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Alan Bennett Quotes
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Alan Bennett (born 1934-05-09 ) is an English playwright, screenwriter, memoirist, essayist and actor. His works include Forty Years On , An Englishman Abroad , Talking Heads , A Question of Attribution and The Madness of King George . See also Beyond...


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Alan Bennett Information
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Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English author and Tony Award-winning...


News and Journals
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The New York Observer
Bennett\'d5s The History Boys: Telling Witty Tales of School
5/7/2006: 1,366 words, approx. 5 pages
Alan Bennett’s The History Boys is all the good things you’ve surely heard about it. I’ve seen Nicholas Hytner’s acclaimed National Theatre production twice now and doubled my pleasure. Mr. Bennett has written a wonderfully engaging play about an English obsession—schooldays. It sparkles with wit...
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The New York Observer
Bennett's The History Boys: Telling Witty Tales of School
5/7/2006: 1,366 words, approx. 5 pages
Alan Bennett’s The History Boys is all the good things you’ve surely heard about it. I’ve seen Nicholas Hytner’s acclaimed National Theatre production twice now and doubled my pleasure. Mr. Bennett has written a wonderfully engaging play about an English obsession—schooldays. It sparkles with wit...
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The New York Observer
A Royal Appetite for Books
10/9/2007: 651 words, approx. 2 pages
THE UNCOMMON READER By Alan Bennett Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 128 pages, $15 To read is to be slightly ill. And the symptoms only worsen when reading something good. A 19th-century novel, a Bleak House or an Anna Karenina, commits us to its pages with...
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AP News
Ralph Fiennes stars at National Theatre
2/15/2007: 428 words, approx. 1 pages
A new drama about the arms trade and an adaptation of a beloved war film are highlights of the coming season at Britain's National Theatre, artistic director Nicholas Hytner announced Thursday.Future productions include star turns for Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche.Among the National's 2007-2008 shows...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Joseph H. O'Mealy
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In the following essay, O'Mealy presents an analysis of the screen adaptation of The Madness of George III as an example of Hollywood's tendency to downplay and simplify the political and constitutional issues explored in the original play.


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