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 Arno...
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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 ...
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Critical Essay by Martin Price
[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 o...
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Critical Essay by J. C. Trewin
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 ...
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Critical Essay by Mollie Panter-downes
[Another] play about Mary Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth may not have struck anyone as an exhilarating prospect, but Mr. Bolt has succeeded in bringing off ...
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Critical Essay by Henry Hewes
[Vivat! Vivat Regina!] sets out to demonstrate Bolt's reasonable contention that Queen Elizabeth I gradually abandoned vivaciousness to become a marvelously skill...
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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 wan...
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Robert (Oxton) Bolt
Critical Essay by Martin Price
Notable quotes from the Academy Awards
