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	Terence Rattigan \| Biography \| MTV Movies
		Terence Rattigan was that relative rarity among the ranks of playwrights: a major theater author who was almost equally successful as a screenwriter, and one of a very few playwrights of his era privileged to adapt his own stage work to the screen on a regular basis.
		Rattigan's finest and most enduring work for the screen was probably The Browning Version, which had its roots in his time as a boy at Harrow in the mid-'20s, drawing on his memories of one cold, distant, dry-as-dust teacher of classical languages, and of another teacher to whom he was attracted romantically.
		Rattigan had the misfortune to come of age as a gay man in the England of the 1930s, when such matters were still criminalized and prosecuted; he had the good fortune, however, to be a man of the theater, the one respectable area of creative life that tolerated such relationships.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/95273/bio.jhtml (1579 words)

	Terence Rattigan's official Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Terence Rattigan was born on the 10th June, 1911 into a distinguished family.
		Terence Rattigan was diagnosed with leukaemia in 1962 and after doing little else than waiting for his death, he made a miraculous recovery.
		In death, Rattigan became a national figure, untouchable as he was in his youth, at the height of his popularity, by the press and public alike.
	www.terencerattigan.co.uk /life.html (1005 words)

	Terence Rattigan
		Rattigan's determination to write a more serious play produced After the Dance (1939), a fine satirical social drama about the 'Bright Young Things' and their failure to do anything to prevent the war.
		Rattigan would alternate between comedies and dramas, and after the war, a string of dramas made his name as one of the major playwrights of the day: The Winslow Boy (1946), The Browning Version (1948), The Deep Blue Sea (1952), and Separate Tables (1954).
		Rattigan was not a thick-skinned writer and the decline in his reputation hit at his confidence.
	www.queens-theatre.co.uk /biographies/terencerattigan.htm (440 words)

	Everything but the kitchen sink \| Critics \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Rattigan was brusquely dethroned in the Fifties with the arrival of the movement known as the 'kitchen sink', which had no patience with craftsmanship and the implicit.
		When Terence was undecided as to which of two plays he should submit to a theatre manager, her advice was brisk rather than indulgent: better give him a good farce than a bad drama.
		Rattigan was shaken by Morgan's death, but as much as anything because a police inquiry could implicate him (Morgan left two suicide notes, neither of them for Rattigan).
	books.guardian.co.uk /critics/reviews/0,5917,125626,00.html (979 words)

	Terence Rattigan Biography
		Rattigan's determination to write a more serious play produced After the Dance 1939 a fine satirical social drama about the 'Bright Young Things' and their failure to do anything to prevent the war.
		Rattigan would alternate between comedies and dramas and after the war a string of dramas made his name as one of the major playwrights of the day: The Winslow Boy (1946) The Browning Version (1948) The Deep Blue Sea (1952) and Separate Tables (1954).
		Rattigan was not a thick-skinned writer and the decline in his reputation hit at his confidence.
	www.ebiog.com /biography/4696/terence-rattigan/bio.htm (438 words)

	TERENCE RATTIGAN
		To appreciate the tragedy of Rattigan's decline (and Wansell passionately argues that it was nothing less than tragic), we must appreciate the extent of his achievement.
		Like many of his characters, Rattigan ''lived a life of disguise and concealment,'' presenting himself to the world as urbane and assured while privately suffering a pervasive fear of failure, a feeling that his early success was a fluke.
		Because his avowed intention in ''Terence Rattigan'' is to rehabilitate his subject's reputation, his main concern is the work rather than the life, except as the life illuminates the work.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/072497/terence.htm (1184 words)

	Terence Rattigan - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Terence Mervyn Rattigan was born on June 10, 1911 in London, the son of a career diplomat and serial philanderer whose indiscretions resulted in his being cashiered by the Foreign Office.
		Rattigan's themes were personal: the illogicality of love; the conflict between idealized love and love as realized in the here and now; the pain of lost promise; and the defeat of potential greatness by human weakness.
		Rattigan was first diagnosed with leukemia in 1962; it went into remission in 1964, but he suffered a relapse in 1968.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0711905/bio (1129 words)

	Terence Rattigan
		Terence Mervyn Rattigan (June 10, 1911-November 30, 1977) was one of Britain's most important dramatists.
		He was born in London and educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford, and his work to some extent reflects this privileged and intellectual background.
		Several of his later plays were adapted for film and/or television.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/te/Terence_Rattigan.html (101 words)

	Terence Rattigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan (June 10, 1911 – November 30, 1977) was one of England's most important 20th century dramatists.
		He was knighted in the early seventies and moved back to Britain where he experienced a minor revival in his reputation before his death from bone cancer in 1977 at the age of 66.
		Rattigan lived briefly at The Red House in the Berkshire village of Sonning during 1945–47 and there is a blue plaque recording his stay there, visible from the road.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Terence_Rattigan (686 words)

	(Sir) Terence Rattigan - Films as writer:
		Rattigan contributed to over 20 screenplays, seven based on his own plays, but he only ever really regarded cinema as a financial safety net.
		However, Rattigan manages to reveal much of the underlying mood of the wealthy younger generation of the 1930s, hinting at the deeper conflicts in their political and sexual attitudes.
		The best of Rattigan's writing exemplified on the surface the cool, orderly gentlemanly code of English playwriting (rather in the style of Noël Coward with whom he is often compared both dramatically and cinematically), but the subtext was always a remorseless attack on the British fear of emotion and its relentless repression.
	www.filmreference.com /Writers-and-Production-Artists-Po-Ro/Rattigan-Sir-Terence.html (645 words)

	PeoplePlay UK - Terence Rattigan and Elizabeth Taylor
		Terence Rattigan was one of the most successful theatre and film writers of the mid 20th century.
		Rattigan was friends with all the great actors of his time: John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Michael Redgrave, Vivien Leigh and Elizabeth Taylor who is seen here with him on the set of The VIPs in 1963.
		Rattigan’s screenplay for The VIPs was a thinly disguised retelling of the breakdown of Laurence Olivier’s marriage to Vivien Leigh.
	www.peopleplayuk.org.uk /collections/object.php?object_id=2017 (247 words)

	Knitting Circle Terence Rattigan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Terence Rattigan never came out publicly as gay and kept his relationships with young men secret.
		Terence Rattigan invented the nice middle-class, middle-aged Aunt Edna to represent the type of person who would enjoy his plays.
		"Rattigan was brusquely dethroned in the Fifties with the arrival of the movement known as the 'kitchen sink', which had no patience with craftmanship and the implicit.
	www.knittingcircle.org.uk /terencerattigan.html (1480 words)

	winslowboy
		Terence Rattigan was born on June 10th, 1911.
		This play solidified the view that many already had of Rattigan: "his was the acceptable voice of protest that would not embarrass or annoy those who dictated what was politically or artistically acceptable." Rattigan took to this voice--the voice of the common theatergoer--and he even gave it a name; he called it Aunt Edna.
		In death, Rattigan became a national figure, revered as he was in his youth, at the height of his popularity, by the press and public alike.
	www.sonypictures.com /classics/winslowboy/castcredits/rattigan.html (1092 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Sir Terence Rattigan
		Playwright Terence Rattigan made explicit, in this excerpt from one of his last plays, a theme that underpinned much of his work, but which, when applied by others to his own life and writing, was to contribute to fluctuations in his critical standing.
		Rattigan was born in Kensington, London, in 1911, to parents who were both of Irish Protestant descent.
		Rattigan is said to have decided to become a playwright at the age of eight, having seen his first pantomime the previous year.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3715 (690 words)

	Sir Terence Rattigan (1911-1977), Playwright
		Rattigan was born in Kensington and educated at Harrow School and Trinity College Oxford, where he joined the University Dramatic Society.
		The Strand's description of Rattigan's 'sparkling dialogue, which is never too 'clever' for the normal theatregoer', saw his loss of favour with audiences seeing Beckett plays, and the social realism of John Osborne, for the first time.
		Rattigan was responsible for several films made from his plays including The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp03717 (176 words)

	The Deep Blue Sea
		It is Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea, which was revived with a terrific cast (headed by Penelope Wilton and Ian Holm) under the direction of Karel Reisz (today, BBC2, 9:30 in the Performance slot).
		Biographers of Terence Rattigan agree that Rattigan based the play The Deep Blue Sea on the events in his own life-Rattigan's closet and closest lover, Kenneth Morgan, committed suicide after one of their frequent breakups.
		In any case, Hester has many of the qualities of emblematic Rattigan character: she is humiliated (begging Freddie not to leave), a hallmark of many of Rattigan's characters, but she ultimately represses her emotion, another Rattigan characteristic.
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	Antenati: Terence Rattigan
		Terence Rattigan è nato a London nel 1911, è; morto a Hamilton [Bermude] nel 1977.
		L’ultimo lavoro di Rattigan è stata una commedia in costume sulla vita amorosa di Nelson, Lascito alla nazione (A bequest to the nation) rappresentata postume nel 1978.
		Rattigan è stato un tenace seguace della commedia ben costruita.
	www.girodivite.it /antenati/xx3sec/_ratting.htm (180 words)

	Rattigan Sir Terence Mervyn - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Rattigan Sir Terence Mervyn - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Rattigan, Sir Terence Mervyn (1911-1977), British playwright, born in London, and educated at Harrow School and the University of Oxford.
		His first stage success came with Relatively Speaking (1967), and since then his plays have all transferred to London, winning a multitude of drama...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Rattigan_Sir_Terence_Mervyn.html (116 words)

	Amazon.com: Terence Rattigan: A Biography: Books: Geoffrey Wansell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the time of his death in 1977, Terence Rattigan was barely remembered by the theater-going public, yet 30 years earlier he was considered one of Britain's most important playwrights.
		Geoffrey Wansell's Terence Rattigan is the first critical evaluation of the author since his death and, as such, is a major contribution to theater history.
		Though highly regarded for their craftsmanship, Rattigan's plays were often considered superficial and unadventurous, particularly after the arrival of Britain's "angry young men." The compromises brought about by his lifelong attempt to hide his homosexuality are explored also.
	www.amazon.com /Terence-Rattigan-Biography-Geoffrey-Wansell/dp/0312165218 (938 words)

	Terence Rattigan's "Ross" - T. E. Lawrence Studies List
		Terence Rattigan explores the puzzle in his play Ross, this week's play of the month.
		On October 16, there landed at the port of Jeddah a slight blond, Anglo-Irish soldier ' filled with the idea of freeing people,' and who had chosen the Arabs as the ' only suitable ones left.' The soldier's name was T E Lawrence; later he was to be known as Lawrence of Arabia.
		In his play Ross, Terence Rattigan presents us with a sensitive, penetrating, and highly dramatic study of this strange, enigmatic soldier-artist.
	www.telstudies.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=84 (810 words)

	Amazon.com: Terence Rattigan: A Biography: Books: Geoffrey Wansell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the time of his death in 1977, Terence Rattigan was barely remembered by the theater-going public, yet 30 years earlier he was considered one of Britain's most important playwrights.
		Geoffrey Wansell's Terence Rattigan is the first critical evaluation of the author since his death and, as such, is a major contribution to theater history.
		Though highly regarded for their craftsmanship, Rattigan's plays were often considered superficial and unadventurous, particularly after the arrival of Britain's "angry young men." The compromises brought about by his lifelong attempt to hide his homosexuality are explored also.
	amazon.com /Terence-Rattigan-Biography-Geoffrey-Wansell/dp/0312165218 (804 words)

	Terence Rattigan Bibliography at Bookseller World
		Terence Rattigan was born in London on 10th June 1911.
		Due to his parents frequent trips abroad he was brought up mainly by his grandmother and was already immersed in theatre life.
		Early initial success whilst still at Oxford lead Rattigan to leave early to pursue a career as a playwright.
	www.booksellerworld.com /terence-rattigan.htm (97 words)

	Terence Rattigan Summary
		During a career that spanned nearly forty years, from the early 1930s to the 1970s, Terence Rattigan wrote twenty-four dramas for the stage and more than thirty film, television, and radio plays.
		Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan(June 10 1911 – November 30 1977) was one of England 's most important 20th century dramatists.
		In the following essay, Gross asserts that Rattigan's three most successful plays—The Deep Blue Sea, Separate Tables, and Ross—reflect the changing identity of England in the post-World War II period.
	www.bookrags.com /Terence_Rattigan (214 words)

	The Archer-Shee Case: The Root Of Terence Rattigan's 'The Winslow Boy' Contemporary Review - Find Articles
		On the eve of the Allied victory over the Axis powers, the young English playwright, Terence Rattigan, began writing a play loosely based on the case's details, a drama that would launch him into the front rank of English playwrights of his day.
		Last summer a superb performance of Rattigan's play about an ailing schoolmaster, The Browning Version, with that fine actor Edward Fox, received a warm reception in a tour of cities such as Oxford and Bath.
		There is no clear explanation why Rattigan turned to the Archer-Shee case for inspiration at this time in his life.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1623_278/ai_74410517 (940 words)

	The Browning Version Summary & Essays - Terence Rattigan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Browning Version is the play that cemented Terence Rattigan’s reputation as a serious, mature playwright.
		Rattigan based the character and the story of The Browning Version on a classics master he had at school as a student.
		Most critics and scholars believe that Rattigan’s skills as a playwright transcend such problems.
	www.enotes.com /browning-version (373 words)

	The Way to the Stars \| MTV MOVIES
		Originally released in England as The Way to the Stars, Johnny in the Clouds is the story of how the Battle of Britain affected the lives of combatants and civilians alike.
		Terence Rattigan's screenplay concentrates on three groups of people: An American pilot and his wife, a doomed British officer with a wife and child, and a young couple who plan to marry despite the precariousness of wartime romances.
		Most of the action takes place at an air base and the neighboring village, where the private citizens react to rationing and other restrictions with various degrees of nobility and selfishness.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/78915/moviemain.jhtml (323 words)

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