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File on Frayn / compiled by Malcolm Page.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Writer-files
- Methuen dramabook
- A Methuen dramabook
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frayn, Michael--Criticism and interpretation.
- Frayn, Michael.
- Frayn, Michael--Stage history.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Methuen Drama, 1994.
- System Details:
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
- Summary:
- ""Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh"" (Michael Billington, Guardian) Michael Frayn is a playwright, novelist, journalist and writer of screenplays. His most important plays included Copenhagen, Noises Off, Benefactors and Donkeys'' Years. Writers-Files is an important series documenting the work of major dramatists of the last hundred years. Each volume contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer''s plays, with a detailed performance history, excerpted reviews and a selection.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; General Editor''s Introduction; 1: A Brief Chronology; 2: The Plays; A: Stage Plays; The Two of Us; The Sandboy; Alphabetical Order; Donkeys'' Years; Clouds; Balmoral; Make and Break; Noises Off; Benefactors; Look Look; Here; B: Translations and Adaptations; C: Television Plays; Jamie on a Flying Visit; Birthday; Beyond a Joke; Making Faces; First and Last; D: Film; Clockwise; 3: Non-Dramatic Writing; A: Novels; The Tin Men; The Russian Interpreter; Towards the End of the Morning; A Very Private Life; Sweet Dreams; The Trick of It; A Landing on the Sun; Now You Know.
- B: HumourC: Philosophy; D: Journalism; 4: The Writer on His Work; 5: A Select Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-85).
- Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Drama Online, viewed June 18, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Page, Malcolm. File On Frayn.
- ISBN:
- 9781408152508
- 1408152509
- 9781408161364
- 1408161362
- 1408152517
- 9781408152515
- OCLC:
- 625280255
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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