The Washington Times, June 1st, 1997
Geoffrey Wansell makes his intentions clear in the preface of "Terence Rattigan," his biography of the highly successful English playwright who became almost an overnight outcast in the late 1950s: He is out to rehabilitate Rattigan's critical reputation. Mr. Wansell's plea is more impassioned than incisive, and his closing argument in the biography's repetitive final chapter fails to make a persuasive case that Rattigan was misunderstood in his time or that heterosexuals such as English Stage Company director George Devine and the influential critic Kenneth Tynan were out to get the closeted...
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