During a career that spanned nearly forty years, from the early 1930s to the 1970s, Terence Rattigan wrote twenty-four dramas for the stage and more than thirty film, television, and radio plays. He demonstrated striking development in comedy, farce,...

Geoffrey Wansell. New York. St. Martin's. 1997 [C] 1995). xiii + 434 pages + 16 plates. $29.95. ISBN 0-312-16521-8. Published in England in 1995, Geoffrey Wansell's biography of Terence Rattigan is the first to make use of the British Library's Rattigan archives....

Byline: QUENTIN LETTS HOW easily an audience can sometimes find itself siding with, sliding towards, a villain and his frauds. I swear it happened at the Duchesss Theatre last night during a shiveringly good performance by David Suchet as a razor-nasty...

Alan Bennett’s The History Boys is all the good things you’ve surely heard about it. I’ve seen Nicholas Hytner’s acclaimed National Theatre production twice now and doubled my pleasure. Mr. Bennett has written a wonderfully engaging play about an English obsession—schooldays. It sparkles with wit...

Alan Bennett’s The History Boys is all the good things you’ve surely heard about it. I’ve seen Nicholas Hytner’s acclaimed National Theatre production twice now and doubled my pleasure. Mr. Bennett has written a wonderfully engaging play about an English obsession—schooldays. It sparkles with wit...

In the following essay, Rusinko analyzes how Rattigan's plays matured after the transformation in British drama in 1956, and contrasts Rattigan's work with other British playwrights of the time.

In the following essay, Gross asserts that Rattigan's three most successful plays—The Deep Blue Sea, Separate Tables, and Ross—reflect the changing identity of England in the post-World War II period.

In the following essay, Dalrymple compares the work of Rattigan and Harold Pinter in order to illuminate the significant cultural shift that took place in England in the 1950s.