The Browning Version

Author : Terence Rattigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1854597108

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The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan Pdf

Rattigan's well-loved play about an unpopular schoolmaster who snatches a last shred of dignity from the collapse of his career and his marriage. Twice filmed (with Michael Redgrave and Albert Finney) and frequently revived. Andrew Crocker-Harris' wife Millie has become embittered and fatigued by her husband's lack of passion and ambition. On the verge of retirement, and divorce, Andrew is forced to come to terms with the platitude his life has become. Then John Taplow, a previously unnoticed pupil, gives Andrew an unexpected parting gift: a second-hand copy of Robert Browning's translation of Agamemnon - a gift which offers not only a opportunity for redemption, but the chance to gain back some dignity. This volume also contains Harlequinade, a farce about a touring theatre troupe, written to accompany The Browning Version in a double-bill under the joint title, Playbill. 'Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan' Michael Billington This edition includes an authoritative introduction, biographical sketch and chronology.

Author : Terence Rattigan
Publisher : Samuel French
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : American drama
ISBN : IND:30000001245269

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The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan Pdf

A play about a schoolmaster at an English boarding school who must go into retirement due to ill health.

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Executions and executioners
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004530353

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The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning Pdf

Author : R. Barton Palmer,William Robert Bray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107652408

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Modern British Drama on Screen by R. Barton Palmer,William Robert Bray Pdf

This collection of essays offers the first comprehensive treatment of British and American films adapted from modern British plays. Offering insights into the mutually profitable relationship between the newest performance medium and the most ancient. With each chapter written by an expert in the field, Modern British Drama on Screen focuses on key playwrights of the period including George Bernard Shaw, Somerset Maugham, Terence Rattigan, Noel Coward and John Osborne and the most significant British drama of the past century from Pygmalion to The Madness of George III. Most chapters are devoted to single plays and the transformations they underwent in the move from stage to screen. Ideally suited for classroom use, this book offers a semester's worth of introductory material for the study of theater and film in modern Britain, widely acknowledged as a world center of dramatic productions for both the stage and screen.

Author : Christopher R. Browning
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062037756

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Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning Pdf

The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.

Author : Terence Rattigan
Publisher : Baker's Plays
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573011443

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French Without Tears by Terence Rattigan Pdf

At the Miramar, a villa in a small seaside town on the west coast of France, a group of young men have gathered, ostensibly to learn French. Diana Lake proves a major distraction, manipulating the affections of one after another.Written in 1936.

Author : Terence Rattigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:955302713

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Adventure Story by Terence Rattigan Pdf

Author : Barbara Browning
Publisher : Two Dollar Radio
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780983247159

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I'm Trying to Reach You by Barbara Browning Pdf

* The Believer Book Award Finalist * One of the Best Books of 2012 —BuzzFeed “I was in Zagreb the day that Michael Jackson died. When I heard the news, the first thing I thought was, That’s it. That’s the first line of my novel. ‘I was in Zagreb the day that Michael Jackson died.’” First Michael Jackson, then Pina Bausch. Next is Merce Cunningham. Gray Adams, a former dancer with the Royal Swiss Ballet at work on his dissertation at NYU, has a theory spurred by countless hours of YouTube-based procrastination: Someone is killing these famous dancers! (And he may bear an uncanny resemblance to Jimmy Stewart, circa Vertigo.) I’m Trying to Reach You is a moving and candid contemporary look at how we process grief, as well as how we love and communicate with one another. "A provocative novel... that blurs the boundaries between life and performance, dance, art, and viral video. The novel is also framed in the world of performance art and is itself its own kind of performance... and feels rightly reflective of a moment when dance is pushing the boundaries of what constitutes a performance space." —Slate

Author : Robert Browning
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547801870

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My Last Duchess (Unabridged) by Robert Browning Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "My Last Duchess (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "My Last Duchess" is a poem, frequently anthologised as an example of the dramatic monologue. It first appeared in 1842 in Browning's Dramatic Lyrics. The poem is written in 28 rhymed couplets of iambic pentameter. The poem is set during the late Italian Renaissance. The speaker (presumably the Duke of Ferrara) is giving the emissary of the family of his prospective new wife (presumably a third or fourth since Browning could have easily written 'second' but did not do so) a tour of the artworks in his home. He draws a curtain to reveal a painting of a woman, explaining that it is a portrait of his late wife; he invites his guest to sit and look at the painting. Robert Browning (1812 - 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, and in particular the dramatic monologue, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humor, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax. The speakers in his poems are often musicians or painters whose work functions as a metaphor for poetry.

Author : Anne Enright
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771005923

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Actress by Anne Enright Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020 Man Booker Prize-winner and bestselling author Anne Enright's latest--a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths. This is the story of Irish theatre legend, Katherine O'Dell, as written by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London's West End. Katherine's life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings. But this romance between mother and daughter cannot survive Katherine's past, or the world's damage. As Norah uncovers her mother's secrets, she acquires a few of her own. Then, fame turns to infamy when Katherine decides to commit a bizarre crime. Actress is about a daughter's search for the truth: the dark secret in the bright star, and what drove Katherine finally mad. Brilliantly capturing the glamour of post-war America and the shabbiness of 1970s Dublin, Actress is an intensely moving, disturbing novel about mothers and daughters and the men in their lives. A scintillating examination of the corrosive nature of celebrity, it is also a sad and triumphant tale of freedom from bad love, and from the avid gaze of the crowd.

Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847658883

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Confronting the Classics by Mary Beard Pdf

Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her TV presenting and her books. In a series of sparkling essays, she explores our rich classical heritage - from Greek drama to Roman jokes, introducing some larger-than-life characters of classical history, such as Alexander the Great, Nero and Boudicca. She invites you into the places where Greeks and Romans lived and died, from the palace at Knossos to Cleopatra's Alexandria - and reveals the often hidden world of slaves. She takes a fresh look at both scholarly controversies and popular interpretations of the ancient world, from The Golden Bough to Asterix. The fruit of over thirty years in the world of classical scholarship, Confronting the Classics captures the world of antiquity and its modern significance with wit, verve and scholarly expertise.

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476770222

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To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway Pdf

To Have and Have Not is the dramatic, brutal story of Harry Morgan, an honest boat owner who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who swarm the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair. In this harshly realistic, yet oddly tender and wise novel, Hemingway perceptively delineates the personal struggles of both the “haves” and the “have nots” and creates one of the most subtle and moving portraits of a love affair in his oeuvre. In turn funny and tragic, lively and poetic, remarkable in its emotional impact, To Have and Have Not takes literary high adventure to a new level. As the Times Literary Supplement observed, “Hemingway's gift for dialogue, for effective understatement, and for communicating such emotions the tough allow themselves, has never been more conspicuous.”

Author : Michael Darlow
Publisher : Quartet Books (UK)
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215370672

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Terence Rattigan by Michael Darlow Pdf

In his lifetime he was a well-known public figure, yet despite his friendships Rattigan always publicly hid his homosexuality. In this biography, Michael Darlow describes this aspect of Rattigan's life and fully considers it in relation to his work.

Author : Beverly A. Browning
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470463970

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Grant Writing For Dummies by Beverly A. Browning Pdf

Grant Writing For Dummies, 3rd Edition serves as a one-stop reference for readers who are new to the grant writing process or who have applied for grants in the past but had difficulties. It offers 25 percent new and revised material covering the latest changes to the grant writing process as well as a listing of where to apply for grants. Grant writers will find: The latest language, terms, and phrases to use on the job or in proposals. Ways to target the best websites to upload and download the latest and user-friendly application forms and writing guidelines. Major expansion on the peer review process and how it helps improve one's grant writing skills and successes. One-stop funding websites, and state agencies that publish grant funding opportunity announcements for seekers who struggle to find opportunities. New to third edition.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410342164

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A Study Guide for Terence Rattigan's "The Browning Version" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Terence Rattigan's "The Browning Version," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.