Critical Essay by Kenneth Tynan
About the highest tribute I can pay N. F. Simpson's A Resounding Tinkle … is to say that it does not belong in the English theatrical tradition at all. I...
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Critical Essay by C. Z. Fothergill
One may approach Simpson's style through a subtitle of his own: farce in a new dimension…. Farce as a descriptive term is associated with stereotyped ...
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Critical Essay by Alan Brien
Mr. N. F. Simpson in [A Resounding Tinkle and The Hole] triumphantly demonstrates that it is possible to combine UNESCO and Ionesco, and juggle hilariously with hand gren...
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Critical Essay by J. G. Weightman
Mr Simpson has revealed in a newspaper interview that he was not aware of Ionesco when he wrote [A Resounding Tinkle]. If one did not know this, one would say that i...
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Critical Essay by Kenneth Tynan
On the strength of his double bill, A Resounding Tinkle and The Hole, I am ready to burn my boats and pronounce N. F. Simpson the most gifted comic writer the English ...
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Critical Essay by Alan Brien
N. F. Simpson's prose hardly ever deviates into sense. It is a palimpsest of non-sequiturs, a double acrostic of crossword clues. It is also true farce in that it ...
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Critical Essay by Louis Calta
Apparently, not all of Britain's young, angry and social-minded playwrights write in anger. At least one of them, N. F. Simpson, a London school teacher, regarded...
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Critical Essay by John Russell Taylor
Whether one likes or dislikes N. F. Simpson's work, it seems to me, there is very little to be said about it. It is uniquely all of a piece, all written i...
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Critical Essay by George Wellwarth
Among the more remarkable results of the current so-called "renaissance" in the English drama has been the work of N. F. Simpson…. His three im...
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Critical Essay by Martin Esslin
If Pinter's plays transmute realism into poetic fantasy, the work of Norman Frederick Simpson … is philosophical fantasy strongly based on reality…...
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Critical Essay by Kenneth Tynan
