Terence Rattigan : the playwright as battlefield /

"The thin line Rattigan walked between restraint and invention helped him convey, subtly and deceptively, the obstinacy that thwarts our daily actions. He did it sylistically. His sentences aren't impacted or fractured, and his plots usually obey a linear time sequence. Yet his realism isn...

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Main Author: Wolfe, Peter, 1933- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019]
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505 0 |a Acknowledgments -- 1 Hiding in plain sight -- 2 Queering the queer world -- 3 Some English families at home -- 4 Homes away from home -- 5 Reaching out and pulling back -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author. 
520 |a "The thin line Rattigan walked between restraint and invention helped him convey, subtly and deceptively, the obstinacy that thwarts our daily actions. He did it sylistically. His sentences aren't impacted or fractured, and his plots usually obey a linear time sequence. Yet his realism isn't all that real. Though sentence-by-sentence, his dialogue sounds natural, the creative pulse driving it is distinctive. A gay man, he wrote mostly at a time when homosexuality was a felony in the United Kingdom. He approached this problem by developing a technique more observational than visionary. Invoking his preference for questions over answers, Terence Rattigan: The Playwright as Battlefield shows his avoidance of explanations deepending our commitment to both his people and the outcomes that await them. By covering Rattigan's whole playwriting career, Peter Wolfe's new book describes the stagecraft that delivers meaning within an ever-changing cultural framework"--Back cover. 
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