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From:Contemporary British DramatistsChildren, in some form or another, are an obsessive presence, although Mercer never creates a conventional nuclear family. Peter, a successful Yorkshire novelist, shuttles between three women in Ride A Cock Horse. His...
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From:Contemporary British DramatistsPerhaps the most prolific and uniformly successful of the English dramatists who wrote between the two World Wars. Noe[um]l Coward was more than a dramatist, he was an homme de the[ac]a[ci]tre of great versatility, being...
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From:Contemporary British DramatistsWillis Hall and Keith Waterhouse have written so many stage plays and television and film scripts over nearly 30 years that critics are wont to regard them as the stand-by professionals of British theatre. Their...
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From:Contemporary British DramatistsGraham Greene was approaching his fiftieth birthday and generally accepted as one of the few outstanding novelists of the age when, in 1953, his first play, The Living Room, was produced. Three years later, John...
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From:Contemporary British DramatistsWhen Samuel Beckett's En Attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot) opened at the The[ac]a[ci]tre Babylone in Paris on 5 January 1953, the French dramatist and critic Jean Anouilh compared the event to the historic opening of...
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From:Contemporary British DramatistsThe fortunes of Terence Rattigan fluctuated during his lengthy career from his youthful West End debut in 1936 with French Without Tears through his war-time successes (Flare Path and While the Sun Shines) to his...
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From:Contemporary British DramatistsHis work in drama is as various as his general writing, and included domestic comedy, social problem plays, psychological and philosophical drama, melodrama, and plays of detection. Perhaps inevitably, with so varied an...