Robert Bolt is probably best known as the screenwriter of Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), A Man for All Seasons (1966), Ryan's Daughter (1970), and The Mission (1986). For a brief period in the early 1960s he was considered a major...

Robert Bolt has been characterized by critic John Russell Taylor as a "good, traditional playwright." Unlike his contemporaries during the late 1950s--Harold Pinter, John Osborne, John Arden, and Arnold Wesker--who followed formulas of the theaters of...

The author of A Man for All Seasons and the writer of the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, Robert Bolt occupied a place in the history of the modern British theatre that is difficult to define. He belonged to no school,...

Andrew Bolt, columnist for the Melbourne Herald Sun, is Australia's most influential conservative journalist. Here he discusses his background and his views on a range of central issues confronting Australia and the Western world today WHEN one meets Andrew Bolt, one is struck...

Quotes from Sunday night's 79th annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles:"I'm just here for the movies, Leo." _ Al Gore to Leonardo DiCaprio, who asked if there was anything he wanted to announce at the ceremony.___"If there weren't blacks, Jews and...

Robert Bolt [is] concerned fiercely with the problems of the individual and his social conscience…. [Flowering Cherry] proved to be the portrait of a failure, a study of futility, frustration, and self-deception (today a continuing theme). Jim Cherry is an insurance agent. He is also an abject failure in life, a dreamer who uses his rhapsodies and reveries as a kingdom of escape…. Throughout [the play we observe] the affinity with Death of a Salesman. [At the denouement] there is a symbolic vi...

[Vivat! Vivat Regina!] sets out to demonstrate Bolt's reasonable contention that Queen Elizabeth I gradually abandoned vivaciousness to become a marvelously skillful head of state, while her rival, Mary, Queen of Scots, turned into a richly human woman as she lost her political battle…. The character transformation works better for Elizabeth than for Mary. Although the "Virgin Queen" is predisposed toward coldness by her unhappy childhood with no mother and a father who disowned ...

[The appearance of Robert Bolt's Flowering Cherry] has raised the usual question of whether here is at last a new writer of importance. (pp. 54-5) There are overtones in Bolt's play which recall Osborne's The Entertainer…. What strikes one in the two plays is the attempt to imply something about contemporary England through a study of the middle generation…. Jim Cherry's empty job is set against the nostalgic recollection of life on the land. [The] lost middle gener...