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| Pt. 1 | An introduction | 1 |
| Pt. 2 | All the best lies | 25 |
| Five stage plays | ||
| 1 | The ruling class | 27 |
| 2 | The bewitched | 43 |
| 3 | Laughter! | 65 |
| 4 | Red noses | 85 |
| 5 | Dreaming | 105 |
| Pt. 3 | Confessing our selves | 123 |
| Plays for radio and television | ||
| 6 | Bright lights in dark rooms | 125 |
| Barnes' people (I, II and III) | 125 | |
| Revolutionary witness | 141 | |
| The spirit of man | 151 | |
| Nobody here but us chickens | 160 | |
| Pt. 4 | Reflections | 169 |
| 7 | Traditions and contexts | 171 |
| 8 | A montage of attractions | 209 |
| 9 | Laugh, I could have died | 233 |
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Marian Barnes
reviewed Dark Attractions: The Theatre of Peter Barnes on December 10, 2007 Dark Attractions: The Theatre of Peter Barnes
A few reasons I wanted to read this book, and why I enjoyed it:
The England that Betjeman tried to preserve (architecture, Anglo-Catholicism, etc) is the England that I fell in love with as a kid (through reading and listening to things like Vaughan Williams' "Oxford Elegy") and which as I grew up I realized doesn't exist any more, much to my sadness. So I sensed a kindred spirit in Betjeman.
As a huge Waugh fan, I was excited to read about the inspiration for the famous teddy-bear toting Oxford student from Brideshead Revisited
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And in a modern poetry course in grad school, the professor used a Betjeman poem as an illustration of what was wrong with poetry before modern poetry "rescued" it, in his opinion. So of course I became a Betjeman fan on the spot.
This was a very well-written biography that gave me a good sense of the man and his work. I'm looking forward to rereading some of his poetry now and perhaps digging up some of the BBC programs he did.
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