In 1998 Michael Frayn had his first original play, Copenhagen, staged at the Royal National Theatre on London's south bank. This production was not the first time his work had been seen at the prestigious theater, as several of Frayn's adaptations of the...

Michael Frayn's versatility has prevented his full recognition in any of the areas he has worked in during a forty-year career: novelist, comic novelist, lay philosopher, humorist, translator of classic plays, and writer for the stage, film, and televisi...

Michael Frayn had five novels published between 1965 and 1973. The second and third of these, The Russian Interpreter (1966) and Towards the End of the Morning (1967), are conventional, the former a cold war suspense novel and the latter a middle-class L...

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The tourists may stop when the Scandinavian summer ends, but Copenhagen's cultural supremacy continues for 11 more weeks. For an autumn break, the current European Capital of Culture is cool in every sense. The city may not have the romance of Paris, the sights...

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In the following review, Powers describes Copenhagen as “wonderful theater,” noting that Frayn addresses moral issues of depth and complexity.

In the following essay, Stewart argues that Copenhagen creates a dialogue between the discourses of science and theater which reveals that both are concerned with questions of ambiguity and uncertainty.

In the following review, Rose offers a negative assessment of Copenhagen, arguing that the play distorts historic and scientific truth for the sake of drama and theatricality, thereby undermining the moral significance of the real life events on which the work is based.

Compares Michael Frayn's Copenhagen with Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Physicists. It looks at science, the role of secrete agencies and the role of women in both plays.

Copenhagen incorporates many references to the Shakespearean play Hamlet, therefore the theme of this play is portrayed with more emphasis. An example of this recurring theme is the reference of the ''darkness inside the human soul'' to the news of Jews being shipped from Denmark ''eastwards'', ''to engulf us all'.