Product Description

New edition of one of Rattigan's best-known plays to coincide with major revival starring Corin Redgrave in the role made famous by his father Michael Redgrave The Browning Version is the story of an unpopular and unloved classics master at a public school in the 1940s. Deserted by his wife and on the verge of retirement, Crocker-Harris finds a form of redemption in an unexpected parting gift from a previously unregarded pupil - a secondhand copy of Robert Browning's translation of the Agamemnon. Filmed twice, with Michael Redgrave in 1951 and Albert Finney in 1994, this new edition of The Browning Version is published alongside a major revival on stage starring Corin Redgrave. Complete with an extensive introduction by the Rattigan expert, Dan Rebellato, it is one of the titles in the definitive edition of the plays of Rattigan published by Nick Hern Books. Also included in the volume is the farce, Harlequinade, written to accompany The Browning Version in a double-bill.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #268072 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Review
"Reviewing a revival at the National Theatre in 1994, The Times wrote: 'The cruel inequalities of love always absorbed Rattigan; and not least here... This is a play that has not dated'

About the Author
Terence Rattigan (1911-1977) hit the jackpot at the age of 25 with French Without Tears. There followed After The Dance, The Winslow Boy, The Browning Version, Separate Tables, The Deep Blue Sea and In Praise of Love. All are published in the Definitive Edition of the plays of Terence Rattigan from NHB.

Customer Reviews

Don't listen to him! This is a classic!
This is a great great play. A miniature masterpiece of restraint, suppressed emotion and tempestuous love. Set in a schoolmaster's room, it's been filmed twice, revived many times, a real classic where every line seethes with subtlety and ambiguity. Emotionally rich and raw. Extraordinary. One of the great British plays of the twentieth century.

A beautiful exploration of repression and out-pouring.
There is a fine balance to be achieved in every person's life. It is the decision of every individual to qualify where their balance lies. There are webs of imperfection, extremity, veiled truth and self-deceit that are slowly, carefully and brilliantly unwoven by a craftsman at his very best.
The setting of a boy's public school is pertinent and relevant with regards to the way characters connect with each other. It is equally powerful when you understand that these personalities exist, love, loathe and manipulate each other in every corner of society. Need, emptiness and grief are universal.
This is a subtle, devastating play. If you believe King Lear contains hope, then you will also be able to spot it at the end of this play as well.

Dry as dust play. Frankly, NOT a classic
Set entirely in a Public Schoolmasters living room this play is boring and not worth the effort.

It is full of stereo typical characters and plot.