- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Yale University Press; 1st Edition edition (6 Jun 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0300099193
- ISBN-13: 978-0300099195
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,118,999 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The first in-depth biography of theater genius Kenneth Tynan, looking behind the celebrity myth to show how Tynan's eloquence and fervor helped change the course of theater in Britain and America
Keith Baxter, Spectator, 12 July 2003
'[an] excellent biography, so cool, so impeccably researched, and so often very moving'.
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This review is from: Kenneth Tynan: Writing for Posterity: A Life (Hardcover)
I am rather a fan of Kenneth Tynan's life, personality, and writing - I have all his published work and all other books by and about him - but I was definately disappointed with this biography.The problem is that it is more a portrait of the English theatre postWW2 as seen by KT than it is a biography of KT the Person, which is what I am interested in! Remarkably little - none perhaps - more than we already may know from the Kathleen Tynan bio, or the Diaries or Letters is revealed, either as information or commentary; he even dies almost offstage, in one sentence on p349! A good book perhaps for someone with an interest in the English stage and Tynan - in that order - but not a wholly recommended must-read for anyone interested in Tynan the Person. For that I'd recommend Kathleen Tynan's book more, for all its faults, or the Diaries.
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3.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Theatre lovers ahoy!,
By Ian Muldoon - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Kenneth Tynan: Writing for Posterity: A Life (Hardcover)
You need chutzpah to review a book about one of the greatest reviewers of all time, but what the hell! Let's get the grotty stuff out of the way - Mr Shellard does not resile from the personal as we learn this bastard Englishman Kenneth Peacock Tynan had an irritating stutter, developed a taste for sado-masochistic sex, was a wife beater, who smoked three packs a day and was a wildly attractive personality who was on a first name basis with Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams. The real interest in Mr Tynan was his influence in helping shape the emergence of some of the greatest theatre of the last century and his legacy of writing associated with that mission - and mission it was. He knew what moved him in the theatre and he was fearless in letting all and sundry know about it. This meticulously researched biography is naturally of special interest to drama teachers, theatre lovers etc but it also sets much of the action within the context of the post war malaise in Britain, the Suez crisis, Vietnam and so forth. It also illuminates the role of the Lord Chamberlain and the stifling censorship which shackled so much British theatre until the likes of Mr Tynan took up the cause. Well worth a read.
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