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Kenneth Peacock Tynan
Kenneth Peacock Tynan , 1927–80, English drama critic, author, and theatrical executive, b. Birmingham, England. During the 1950s, while writing for The Observer, Tynan was widely regarded as Britain's most brilliant, insightful, and influential drama critic. He espoused a new theatrical realism best exemplified in the works of the angry young men . For a decade (1963–73) he was literary manager of the National Theatre of Great Britain. Tynan's last years, spent in Los Angeles, were filled with disappointment and unhappiness and were artistically enlivened primarily by a series of lengthy profiles he wrote for the New Yorker. Among his books are Curtains (1961) and Show People: Profiles in Entertainment (1979).
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Tynan, Kenneth (Peacock)
Tynan, Kenneth (Peacock) (1927–80), dramatic critic, educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. He wrote for various papers, most influentially for the Observer (1954–63), and championed the plays of Osborne, Wesker, Delaney, Simpson, Beckett, and others, playing a leading role in the shift of taste from drawing-room comedy and the poetic drama of T. S. Eliot and C. Fry (which he disliked) to naturalism and ‘working-class drama’ (see kitchen sink drama). His collections of reviews and essays include Curtains (1967), The Sound of Two Hands Clapping (1975), and A View of the English Stage (1976), which pay tribute to the role of the English Stage Company. Tynan was also a moving force in the creation of the National Theatre. See also, theatre criticism.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Tynan, Kenneth (Peacock)." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Tynan, Kenneth (Peacock)." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-TynanKennethPeacock.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Tynan, Kenneth (Peacock)." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-TynanKennethPeacock.html |
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