Biography EssayDuring 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 ra...
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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 d...
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In the following essay, Foulkes explores Rattigan's recurring theme of the love triangle and its influence on his work.
In the preface to the second volume of his Collected Plays, Terence Ratti...
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In the following positive review of While the Sun Shines, Klein asserts that “the production is charming, not unfunny and quaint enough to be endearing.”
Presenting a play by the British...
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In the following review, Spencer provides a mixed assessment of the 1995 London production of In Praise of Love.
One of the most welcome theatrical trends of recent years has been the rediscovery of T...
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In the following negative review, Nightingale finds the 1995 London revival of In Praise of Love dated yet poignant.
Terence Rattigan based this touching play [In Praise of Love] on his observation of...
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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 t...
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In the following mixed review of Cause Célèbre, Peter chronicles the renaissance of Rattigan's dramatic work and reputation.
Rattigan's last play is enjoying an emotional r...
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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...
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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.
History is a seamless r...
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In the following essay, Innes regards Rattigan's plays as embodying the social and cultural consciousness of the 1950s.
Rattigan has had an unusually, indeed undeservedly bad press. Ever since ...
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In the following review, Kingston offers a favorable assessment of the revival of Flare Path.
Cliches can attach themselves like the proverbial burrs to a playwright whose work dips out of fashion, an...
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In the following mixed review of the 1995 London revival, Bassett describes the circumstances surrounding the writing of Flare Path.
Terence Rattigan's drama depicting Air Force pilots and thei...
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In the following essay, Wansell chronicles the successful staging of Rattigan's second British hit, Flare Path.
Me—who am as a nerve o'er which do creep
The else unfelt oppressio...
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Terence Rattigan
Terence (Mervyn) Rattigan
