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The Browning Version (NHB Classic Plays)
Author(s): Terence Rattigan (Author)
- Publisher: Nick Hern Books
- Publication Date: 10 Oct. 2002
- Edition: New edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 128 pages
- ISBN-10: 1854597108
- ISBN-13: 9781854597106
Book Description
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.
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Packs more truths about the human condition into 70 minutes than most other dramas could manage in a month. –Evening Standard
An acknowleged one-act masterpiece…A surefire hit that always touches the heart. –Guardian
