Kenneth Tynan: Theatre Writings - Rilegato

Tynan, Kenneth

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ISBN 10: 1854590502 ISBN 13: 9781854590503

Casa editrice: Nick Hern Books, 2007

Riassunto

Following on from his "Diaries and Letters", comes this long awaited selection of the best of Tynan's theatre criticism. 'I doubt,' wrote Kenneth Tynan in his review of "Look Back in Anger", 'if I could love anyone who did not wish to see this play'. Famous above all for his championship of the Angry Young Men at the Royal Court and for heralding Brecht, Beckett and Pinter, Tynan was not only the 20th century's most influential theatre critic, but his writing was itself a 'high-definition performance' - one of the qualities he always sought in others. This volume, selected and edited by Tynan's biographer, Dominic Shellard, brings together the best of Tynan's theatre writing drawn from his twelve years as a theatre critic (1951-63). Included are ground-breaking reviews of plays by Arthur Miller, John Osborne, T.S.Eliot and Noel Coward, as well as articles on such topics as Broadway musicals, censorship, Brecht in Berlin and the National Theatre, where he was to be Olivier's right-hand man - thus ending his career as a critic. All of Tynan's theatre criticism has been out of print for many years - a fact regularly lamented by reviewers. This new, comprehensive selection will be the standard reference point for Tynan's work for years to come, as well as providing useful contexts for each review.

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A clutch of Kenneth Tynan's reviews are worth more than a hundredweight of anyone elses's. This volume, edited by his biographer, stamped with Tom Stoppard's approval in the foreword, contains all the classics: the Look Back in Anger love-in, the teasing of Laurence Olivier and , most appealingly, the endless savaging of Vivien Leigh. --Sunday Times

There isn't a page of this book that doesn't contain some precision-tooled vignette or bon mot, cut and polished till it gleams just so... two splendid collections --Daily Telegraph

Kenneth Tynan sclerotic is more acute and entertaining than anyone else at their most superbly responsive --Observer

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• Editore: Nick Hern Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1854590502
• ISBN 13: 9781854590503
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile