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Terence Rattigan - The Playwright as Battlefield (Hardcover)
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Terence Rattigan - The Playwright as Battlefield (Hardcover)
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The theatrical world Terence Rattigan built is vital but disturbing
and uniquely constructed. His sentences are not 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 behind it is
idiosyncratic and self-lacerating. As a gay man writing at a time
when homosexuality was a felony in the UK, Rattigan wrote at a
skewed angle to his culture, making his plays at times easy to
follow but hard to fathom. Terence Rattigan: The Playwright as
Battlefield examines the ways in which Rattigan's works turn their
audiences into participants, encouraging intellectual independence
and freeing them to make decisions for themselves as to the deeper
meanings of the works. The playwright's omission of outright
explanations deepens the audience's emotional commitment to the
outcomes of the performance, and walks a fine line between
restraint and invention. His works convey subtly and deceptively
the cold obstinacy that thwarts our everyday actions in a way which
that is felt viscerally by the audience. This book engages works
from throughout Rattigan's early and late career to examine the
unique methods by which the playwright conveys meaning to various
audiences within an ever-changing sociocultural context.
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