Ken Tynan

Standard Name: Tynan, Ken
Used Form: Kenneth Tynan

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Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Jane Howard
EJH met Arthur Koestler at a party and was bowled over by his whirlwind energy, but when he proposed marriage she had enough sense to counter-suggest living together for some months instead to see how...
Fictionalization Naomi Jacob
BBC radio aired a play by Harold Lang and Kenneth Tynan , The Quest for Corbett, in which NJ played the lead role as Aphra Corbett, a preposterous woman writer modelled on herself.
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001.
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Literary responses Enid Bagnold
The play was a success with London audiences and critics. In The Observer, Kenneth Tynan claimed that the West End Theatre justified its existence with this production of the finest artificial comedy to have...
Literary responses Samuel Beckett
Reviews by Harold Hobson and Kenneth Tynan were instrumental in the sensation created by this play in Britain.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
It established Beckett as a major figure in the Theatre of the Absurd.
Brownstone, David, and Irene Franck. Timelines of the Arts and Literature. HarperCollins, 1994.
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Literary responses Pearl S. Buck
Kenneth Tynan , reviewing the play, found it wooden and undramatic,but wrote that Buck could be forgiven a good deal for the sake of her commitment to the side of life.
Conn, Peter. Pearl S. Buck. A Cultural Biography. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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Literary responses Germaine Greer
A contemporary street-level response, an article written by Robert Greenfield for Rolling Stone in early 1971, gives an idea of the popular impression of Greer in England at this date, before The Female Eunuch had...
Literary responses Edna St Vincent Millay
Edmund Wilson disliked this work, apparently because the communist in it is just as ridiculous as the stockbroker, so that no authoritative, authorized, left-wing voice is supplied.
qtd. in
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001.
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But its success was stunning.
qtd. in
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001.
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Occupation Naomi Jacob
Briefly back in London in 1944, she returned to the stage as the mother of a troupe of performing acrobats in a stage adaptation of Margery Sharp 's novel The Nutmeg Tree.
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001.
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Textual Production Marghanita Laski
With Claud Cockburn , Cyril Connolly , Kenneth Tynan , Peter Forster , Wynford Vaughan Thomas , and Steven Watson , ML co-wrote the script for the BBC television comedy series Dig This Rhubarb.
Lewisohn, Mark. “Dig This Rhubarb”. The bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy.

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