Cause célèbre: A play in two acts

by Terence Rattigan

The decorative dustjacket adds much to this vintage hardcover. The jacket shows wear along the edges from shelving. Book is like new inside, free of markings, bright and clean. NEVER a library book, NOT priceclipped, Not a worthless book of the month club edition./lh

Genres: Plays, Theatre, Drama, Crime, Fiction, British Literature

81 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan, CBE was a British dramatist. He was one of England's most popular mid twentieth century dramatists. His plays are typically set in an upper-middle-class background. He is known for such works as The Winslow Boy (1946), The Browning Version (1948), The Deep Blue Sea (1952) and Separate Tables (1954), among many others.

A troubled homosexual, who saw himself as an outsider, his plays "confronted issues of sexual frustration, failed relationships and adultery", and a world of repression and reticence.

Reviews

[Illiterate · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rattigan is on familiar ground: powerful and irrational passion amid class and repression.

[Dianne Durante · Rating 4 out of 5]

The title of this work appealed to me, but the summary said it's based on the 1935 trial of a woman and her teenage lover, one or the other of whom murdered the woman's husband. That summary made me doubt whether I wanted to read it, much less recommend it ... I did and I do. One qualification: if you only have time to read one Rattigan play and haven't read *The Browning Version* or *The Winslow Boy,* read one of them instead. NOTE: If you purchase an edition with a long intro about the historical basis for this play, I suggest you read that *after* the play. It's interesting for the info it presents on Rattigan's life and times (this was his last play), and for the factual basis of the play, but it's got spoilers.

[Harry McDonald · Rating 4 out of 5]

oh this is sort of fun and rollicking, while remaining deeply empathetic.

[Anton Segers · Rating 2 out of 5]

Het laatste stuk van Rattigan is weer vakkundig geschreven, maar raakt je als toeschouwer minder doordat de moordzaak die hij gebruikt voor zijn zoveelste aanklacht tegen de Britse hypocrisie minder beroert dan zou mogen, en omdat het parallel verhaal van het jurylid minder bijbrengt dan zou moeten.

[Luke Mitchell · Rating 4 out of 5]

pretty good play

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pas mal

[Paul Servini · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of Rattigan's most famous plays based on the trial of a woman and her much younger lover for the murder of the husband.

[Steven · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good play about a true scandal in the 1920s.