If Peter Barnes's screen, radio, and television plays are included alongside his work for the theater, he is one of the most prolific British dramatists of the second half of the twentieth century. He shared (with Edward Bond) the John Whiting Award...

Ranking among the most distinctive contemporary British dramas, Peter Barnes's mordantly comic satires blend neo-Jacobean language, modern gags, invented words, literary allusions, and such aspects of popular culture as songs and movie references....

Peter Barnes, playwright and award-winning screenwriter of "Enchanted April" and "The Ruling Class," died July 1 in a London hospital, following a stroke. He was 73. He received Writers Guild of America and Oscar adapted screenplay noms for 1992's "Enchanted April" and...

Peter Barnes, 73 Playwright, director Saturday, July 3, 2004 Peter Barnes, the British playwright, screenwriter and director best known for his 1968 play "The Ruling Class," a satirical attack on the church and British aristocracy that he later adapted for the screen,...

Convicted sex offenders who used the Internet to help them commit their crimes will be banned from using the Internet under a measure signed into law Thursday.The bill applies to people who, for example, lured a potential victim through e-mail or other electronic messages. It...

An author and entrepreneur urged Vermont lawmakers Tuesday to consider capping carbon emissions by selling permits for discharges to oil companies and some fuel dealers and then returning the proceeds to citizens, all in a bid to reduce the state's role in global warming.Doing so...