Terence Rattigan - The Playwright as Battlefield (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2019
Authors:	Peter Wolfe
Dimensions:	230 x 160 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	164
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-9873-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4985-9873-0
Barcode:	9781498598736

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