John Russell Taylor
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When it was first published in 1962, Anger and After was the first comprehensive study of the dramatic movement which began in 1956 with the staging of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger and has since brought forward such dramatists as Brendan Behan, Harold Pinter, N.F. Simpson, John Arden and Arnold Wesker. Thoroughly revised in 1969, this book remains important reading for theatre students in need of a comprehensive and authoritative guide to post-Osborne...
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This 70th-birthday tribute to Sir Alec is somewhat more than a flat documentary: author Taylor gives real attention to each of Guinness' stage/screen performances--trying to pin down the actor's elusive, unique, "interior" quality. Following young Alec from odd childhood to his persistent search for work in the early 1930s, Taylor conveys the young actor's combination of technical ineptitude, unpromising physical attributes, and strangely shining...