Winslow Boy - Couverture souple

Rattigan, Terence

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0582348552 ISBN 13 : 9780582348554

Editeur : Prentice Hall Press

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

One of the finest dramatists of the last century, uniting superb technical skills with a deep understanding of both the human heart and the British habit of repressing emotion...At a time when our public life is so dismally degraded, it is poignant to be reminded of a time when MPs were concerned enough to defend the rights of an individual child and everyone believed in the possibility of even-handed justice...This beautifully crafted portrait of old-fashioned English decency shines like a good deed in a naughty world. --Daily Telegraph

The play crackles with humour, much of it stemming from the conflict between the will of individuals and the hunchbacked repressions of a society still lumbered with a Victorian notion of the dignity of restraint...Its concern with political, judicial and indeed journalistic unfairness feels pungently topical. --The Evening Standard on the Rose Theatre, Kingston's 2009 revival of The Winslow Boy.

Terence Rattigan was a famous victim of the Royal Court revolution. But his best work lives on through its mixture of traditional form and progressive ideals...It was very moving to hear an audience, in these supposedly cynical times, cheering on a play about the pursuit of justice. --The Guardian on the Rose Theatre, Kingston's 2009 revival of The Winslow Boy.

The play crackles with humour, much of it stemming from the conflict between the will of individuals and the hunchbacked repressions of a society still lumbered with a Victorian notion of the dignity of restraint...Its concern with political, judicial and indeed journalistic unfairness feels pungently topical. --The Evening Standard on the Rose Theatre, Kingston's 2009 revival of The Winslow Boy.

Terence Rattigan was a famous victim of the Royal Court revolution. But his best work lives on through its mixture of traditional form and progressive ideals...It was very moving to hear an audience, in these supposedly cynical times, cheering on a play about the pursuit of justice. --The Guardian on the Rose Theatre, Kingston's 2009 revival of The Winslow Boy.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Written in 1946 but set just a few years before the First World War Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy is one of the finest examples to be found of the 'well made play'. Deeply humane and wise, it is perhaps most famous for its stirring call to 'let right be done.'

The Winslow Boy is based on the real-life court case of a young naval cadet unjustly accused of stealing a five shilling postal order. This event, as controversial in 1910 as anything in the tabloids today, resulted in one of Rattigan's finest and most engrossing dramas as an eminent-and initially unsympathetic-QC takes on the case, and the boy has to withstand the full might of the Royal Naval Establishment seeking to discredit him.

As well as proving hugely popular and successful on the stage, The Winslow Boy has twice been filmed; most recently by David Mamet and starring the late, great, Sir Nigel Hawthorne as the boy's father.

This elegant volume is one of a series of Rattigan's plays individually published by Nick Hern Books. Each has an authoritative and invaluable introduction, biographical sketch and full chronology.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Prentice Hall Press
• ISBN 10: 0582348552
• ISBN 13: 9780582348554
• Reliure: Broché