ISBN:
9783319409979
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (230 p)
Series Statement:
Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
Series Statement:
Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Bertolini, John A The Case for Terence Rattigan, Playwright
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Ethnology-Europe
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Terence Rattigan's Art of Understatement and Implication -- Notes -- Chapter 2: French Without Tears: Rattigan's Shavian Inheritance -- A Prelude to French Without Tears: First Episode -- Rattigan Reckons With Shaw's Comic Legacy -- French Without Tears -- Rattigan and Shaw Redux -- French Without Tears Without Shaw -- Notes -- Chapter 3: After the Dance: Slow Suicide and Quick -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Flare Path: Trapped Words as Mines -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The Winslow Boy: Let Right Be Done -- Notes
Abstract:
Chapter 6: The Comedies: Until They Became Impossible -- Love in Idleness (1944) -- Harlequinade and Who Is Sylvia? -- The Sleeping Prince -- Notes -- Chapter 7: The Browning Version: Words Could So Lacerate a Man's Heart -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Adventure Story: "I Must Die" -- Notes -- Chapter 9: The Deep Blue Sea: Venus Loses Adonis -- The Final Test: Cheered in Defeat -- Notes -- Chapter 10: Separate Tables: Every Man an Island -- Appendix: Variation on Variation on a Theme -- Notes -- Chapter 11: Ross and Man and Boy: The Vision Darkens -- Ross: "God Will Give You Peace
Abstract:
Man and Boy: Empathy with the Devil -- The V. I. P.s and The Yellow Rolls-Royce: The Effects of Wealth -- Notes -- Chapter 12: Bequest to the Nation: "She Cried from Deep, Deep Down in Herself" -- Notes -- Chapter 13: In Praise of Love: Hiding Mortality in Plain Sight -- Notes -- Chapter 14: Cause Célèbre: "Thank God for Peace at Last" -- A Brief Afterword -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Other Sources -- Index
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