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The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan

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Author Biography

Name: Terence Rattigan
Birth Date: 10 June 1911
Death Date: 30 November 1977

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Biography of Terence Rattigan
5597 words, approx. 18.7 pages
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, and...
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Biography of Terence (Mervyn) Rattigan
5330 words, approx. 17.8 pages
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, and...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Browning Version Information
629 words, approx. 2 pages
Terence Rattigan's play, The Browning Version, was first performed on September 8, 1948 at the Phoenix Theatre, London, in a joint performance with Harlequinade. The play is about the last few days in the career of Andrew Crocker-Harris [played by Eric...


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The Washington Post
Not the Best `Browning Version'
10/14/1994: 451 words, approx. 2 pages
IF "THE BROWNING Version" proves anything, it's that a good story is hard to mangle. Director Mike Figgis's adaptation of Terence Rattigan's 1939 play is cluttered with petty and pointless concessions to modern times. But the movie, which stars Albert Finney, Greta Scacchi and...
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The Boston Globe
Finney is magnificently tragic in `The Browning Version'
10/14/1994: 525 words, approx. 2 pages
THE BROWNING VERSION Directed by: Mike Figgis Screenplay by: Ronald Harwood (play: Terence Rattigan) Starring: Albert Finney, Greta Scacchi At: Nickelodeon Rated: R (some language) (This is an expanded version of the review published here when this...
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The New York Observer
Bennett\'d5s The History Boys: Telling Witty Tales of School
5/7/2006: 1,366 words, approx. 5 pages
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...
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The New York Observer
Bennett's The History Boys: Telling Witty Tales of School
5/7/2006: 1,366 words, approx. 5 pages
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...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Benedict Nightingale
514 words, approx. 2 pages
In the following review, Nightingale praises the casting and acting of the 1994 London revival of The Browning Version.
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Critical Review by Charles Spencer
331 words, approx. 1 pages
In the following review of the 1994 London revival of The Browning Version, Spencer contends that “Rattigan is a matchless chronicler of English reserve and deep-buried pain.”
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Review of the Principal Characters and Ideas in the Browning Version
1,681 words, approx. 6 pages
Essay provides a review of the principal characters and ideas of The Browning Version.


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The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan

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