Profiles

Kenneth Tynan's Brilliant Portraits of Theatre Legends

The legendary critic's incisive studies of stage and screen icons

About the Ebook

The only collection of Tynan's star-studded profiles, selected and edited by his widow and biographer, Kathleen Tynan, with a foreword by Simon Callow.

Kenneth Tynan was the 20th century's most influential writer on theatre and performance. Over the course of his life he wrote a series of brilliant and incisive pen-portraits of many of the most significant performers and writers of his day.

Amongst the fifty assembled here are profiles of actors such as Garbo, Bogart, Cagney, Olivier and Gielgud; the directors George Cukor, Peter Brook and Joan Littlewood; writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams; and comedians as diverse as Mel Brooks, Eric Morecambe, W.C. Fields and Lenny Bruce.

'We had thought to have seen the last of Tynan. Now, suddenly, a new volume appears: a collection of fifty profiles of the famous... More than a third of the pieces are new - at least in book form - which in itself is cause enough for dancing... One does not have to like theatre to cherish these pieces... It is a book to savour in small doses, the better to postpone the sadness of reaching its end' Hugh Leonard

'Tynan was unique in that he combined the soul of an artist with the descriptive skill of a journalist... He was an ideal profile writer, as this book eloquently testifies' Michael Billington, Guardian

Why You'll Love This Ebook

• Read sharp, witty essays from one of the 20th century's greatest critics
• Discover penetrating profiles of theatre and film's most influential figures
• Experience criticism elevated to literary art form by Tynan's pen
• Access Nick Hern Books' celebrated collection of theatrical criticism

About the Author

Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980) was a highly influential drama critic, writer, literary manager and theatre producer. He is above all revered for his incisive, passionate and stylish theatre criticism, and his Profiles of a wide variety of writers and performers.

Publication Details

ISBN (EPUB): 9781788503068
Publication Date: 22 August 2019
Pages: 464
Format: Ebook (EPUB)
Publisher: Nick Hern Books

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