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Classical in form, spare, intimate and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Terence Rattigan
- First published
- 1939
- Pages
- 85
- Publisher
- Hamilton, Nick Hern Books
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781854592170
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Sir Terence Rattigan, in full Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan, born in South Kensington, London, of Irish extraction, was an English screenwriter and playwright. Rattigan was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford. Rattigan had early success with two farces, *French Without Tears* (performed 1936) and *While the Sun Shines* (performed 1943). *The Winslow Boy* (performed 1946), a drama based on a real-life case in which a young boy at the Royal Naval College was unjustly accused of theft, won a New York Critics award. *Separate Tables* (performed 1945), perhaps his best known work, took as its theme the isolation and frustration that result from rigidly imposed social conventions. The rad
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