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This volume contains his best work from the thirties and forties, including his first play French Without Tears, about a group of \"bright young things\" attempting to learn French on the Riviera amid numerous distractions. The second play The Winslow Boy, based on an actual case, is the powerful, deliberately well-made drama of a father's attempts to clear his cadet son's name against the assembled might of Britain's naval establishment - the Admiralty. Completing the volume are two one-act plays Harlequinade, a sustained joke against some well-worn theatrical conventions and The Browning Version which portrays a disliked classics master, Crocker-Harris on the point of retiring after eighteen years of unsuccessful teaching \"well up there among the dozen greatest plays written in this country this century.\" (The Spectator) \"Terence Rattigan is the English Tennessee Williams. He maps out the same fatal divorce between the spiritual and the physical, the same drama of lost souls and misdirected lusts, of people stranded with their frustrations, blasted by guilt and reaching out for rescue that they know full well will fail\" (Sunday Times)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/terence-rattigan-books\"\u003eTerence Rattigan\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Unknown Binding\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Eyre Methuen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780413490704\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Eyre Methuen","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £12.84","offer_id":47911327629489,"sku":"SB-041349070X-C3","price":12.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/041349070X.jpg?v=1789270372"},{"product_id":"the-browning-version-and-harlequinade","title":"\"The Browning Version\" and \"Harlequinade\"","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/terence-rattigan-books\"\u003eTerence Rattigan\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 99\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Heinemann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780435209605\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Heinemann","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £46.34","offer_id":47911515324593,"sku":"SB-0435209604-C4","price":46.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0435209604.jpg?v=1789716250"},{"product_id":"cause-celebre-acting-edition-s","title":"Cause Celebre (Acting Edition S.)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTerence Rattigan \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharacters: 15 male, 5 female, 1 boy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnit set. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman on trial with her 20 years younger lover for the murder of her husband creates the title drama in this incendiary recreation of the infamous case of Alma Rattenbury and 18 year-old George Percy Stoner. In 1935, when accused of murdering her husband in their Bournemouth home, the headlines created an early tabloid sensation as woman and boy both take the blame, while sexual freedom is cast in sharp relief against the the stifling morality of post-Victorian England. 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But as Rose's health deteriorates, and Ron is faced with the loveless reality of their separation, they finally face up to their need to be needed. A forgotten classic by \"one of the supreme dramatists of the 20th century\" (Michael Billington, Guardian), Terence Rattigan's Variation on a Theme was presented by HPZ Productions in association with Neil McPherson at the Finborough Theatre in February 2014. The production, its first in more than fifty years, starred twice Olivier Award nominated Rachael Stirling. 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