Taylor, Lib. “Early Stages: Women Dramatists 1958-68”. British and Irish Women Dramatists Since 1958: A Critical Handbook, edited by Trevor Griffiths and Margaret Llewellyn-Jones, Open University Press, pp. 9-25.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Daphne Du Maurier | DDM
wrote a play about her relationship with Ellen, September Tide, which disguised the lesbian nature of that relationship. In it Gertrude Lawrence
(a performer celebrated for acting in Noël Coward
's plays) took... |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. M. Delafield | EMD
's mother, Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle (Bonham) de la Pasture
, was a popular and prolific novelist whose work was admired by writers as far-ranging as Ivy Compton-Burnett
and Evelyn Waugh
. She wrote to... |
Friends, Associates | Clemence Dane | Among CD
's many friends were Sybil Thorndike
, Lewis Casson
, Noël Coward
, and Alfred Hitchcock
. Coward valued her friendship and her perceptive criticism of his work very highly, and used her... |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Cartland | BC
delighted in the company of the famous, beautiful, and charming. She frequented the Embassy Club
, as did Michael Arlen
, Cecil Beaton
, Charlie Chaplin
, and Gloria Vanderbilt
, and she counted... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Brett | It was, however, the second son, Maurice
, who proved their father's favourite, and his status affected his treatment of his younger sisters. Sylvia writes of him as a plump little boy with rosy cheeks... |
Performance of text | Muriel Box | MB
was still working as a continuity girl (responsible for keeping tracks of props and details of sets and shooting) when she wrote this play. It was apparently first professionally staged (as opposed to productions... |
Textual Production | Muriel Box | Some of MB
's scriptwriting left almost no trace on the subsequent record of works produced communally. For instance, The Astonished Heart, released in 1950, is listed as a British film starring Noël Coward |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Box | The contributions they flagged with their own names on the title-page were called Strictly Personal and A—Zoo. A characteristic example of the former is a verse on Noël Coward
to the tune of My... |
Occupation | Hélène Barcynska | As well as devoting steady time and effort to her writing, HB
founded a theatre company which she called Rogues and Vagabonds Repertory Players
, because she discovered the Welsh theatre culture and thought they... |
Textual Production | Enid Bagnold | Despite the talented cast, the play was not a success and closed within a month. Taylor, Lib. “Early Stages: Women Dramatists 1958-68”. British and Irish Women Dramatists Since 1958: A Critical Handbook, edited by Trevor Griffiths and Margaret Llewellyn-Jones, Open University Press, pp. 9-25. 13 |
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