Here is a useful powerpoint presentation on the play "The Browning Version". This PPT consists the plot that is given in your 11th class english Hornbill.
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2. INTRODUCTION
The Browning Version is the play that cemented Terence
Rattigan’s reputation as a serious, mature playwright. It is
viewed as one of his best works, and one of the best one-acts
ever written. First performed at the Phoenix Theatre, London,
England, on September 8, 1948, The Browning Version was
coupled with another one-act by Rattigan entitled Harlequinade
under the umbrella name e, Playbill. This show ran for 245
performances, and Rattigan received the Ellen Terry Award for
The Browning Version, his second. (The first was won two
years earlier for The Winslow Boy.)
The Browning Version made Its New York debut with
Harlequinade on October 12, 1949, but only ran for sixty-two
performances. The praise from British audiences and critics
3. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Terrence Rattigan was born on June 10, 1911, in London,
England. His father, William, was a career diplomat, and
served in countries such as Turkey and Romania. While his
parents lived abroad, Terence and his brother were raised
by their grandparents in England. Rattigan was about
eleven years old when his parents returned. By that time,
he had fallen in love with reading and going to plays. He
wrote his first play about the age of ten.
Rattigan was educated at the Harrow School from 1925
until 1930, when he entered Trinity College, Oxford. His
experiences at the former, a public school, informed such
plays as The Browning Version. Although Rattigan was
training for the diplomatic core, by the time he reached
Oxford, his interest was focused on the stage.
4. He achieved early success with his comedic play French without Tears (1934),
which did extraordinarily well in London and in several other countries. At the
time, the play held the record for the longest-running play in England. It was
based on Rattigan’s experiences studying French. His next few plays were much
less successful, both at home and in New York.
While Rattigan served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, he continued to
write plays, producing about one a year until the early 1960s.
His Flare Path (1942), a war-themed romantic drama, was well-received in
London. Rattigan also began a career writing screenplays with A Quiet Wedding
(1940). Although his plays were popular with critics and audiences in London,
critical acclaim in the United States continued to elude him. After 1948 Rattigan’s
plays garnered mixed critical and commercial success. Such plays as The Deep
Blue Sea (1952) about a woman’s obsessive love for an unworthy man were not
well-received. One of Rattigan’s last big successes was Separate Tables (1954),
which concerns people’s loneliness and isolation. By the early 1960s, Rattigan
stopped writing for the stage when his ideas about the theatre were criticized for
being old-fashioned. He focused on writing screenplays and traveling for several
years; but he returned to writing for the stage in his final years. His last produced
play was Cause Celebre (1977), based on the trial of Alama Rattenbury in 1930s
England. Rattigan died of bone cancer on November 30, 1977.
5. IN THE TEXT
The main course textbook – Hornbill, only includes a small part of the
play. In it;
The scene begins with Taplow (a student) and Frank(science
master),Who start a conversation while waiting outside of Mr. Crocker
Harris 'room.
Frank Hunter arrives, and in the course of the conversation between
the two it becomes clear that Crocker-Harris is retiring because of ill
health. Known for his strict discipline, students dub him the “Crock”
and “Himmler of the lower fifth.” Hunter, on the other hand, enjoys
easy rapport with students, as can be seen in Taplow’s readiness to
share confidences with him. While they wait for the “Crock” to appear,
Hunter instructs Taplow in a proper golf swing. Taplow admits that,
although like most students he had his share of fun at Crocker-
Harris’s expense, he does have sympathy for him.
Taplow is in the midst of mimicking the classics master when Millie
Crocker-Harris enters and overhears the mimicry. She dispatches
Taplow on an errand to the druggist for Crocker-Harris’s heart
medicine to make him go outside till Mr. Harris arrives.
6. CHARACTER SKETCH
(TEXT)
Mr. Crocker Harris
Mr Crocker Harris is a middle aged teacher . He is quite reserved and doesn’t
mix up with his students. He maintains some distance with them. Crocker
Harris a strict Follower of Rules. Mr. Crocker Harris follows them very strictly.
In this regard he is different from other teachers. He never leaks out results
till they are formally announced. He has a wonderful hold over his students.
They are scared of him. Crocker Harris-Shrivelled Inside Like a Nut. Taplow
says that Crocker Harris is shrivelled inside like a nut. It is quite true. He is a
not open. He doesn’t like flattery. Nor does he like anyone who likes him. He
is a hard task-master. He gives extra work to Taplow even on the last day of
school. This he does to punish Taplow for being absent for a day last week.
Sometimes he cracks jokes. His ‘classical’ jokes lack humour. No one
understands them except him. They are as dry and humourless as he himself
is.
7. Frank
Frank is quite open to his students. He doesn’t keep any distance
whiledealing with his students. Taplow is not a student of his class but still
he takes a lot of interest in him. His long conversation with Taplow reveals
his open nature. Frank doesn’t believe in observing formalities. He cares
little regarding rules and regulations. Mr Crocker Harris is feared and even
respected. He has a wonderful hold over his students. They are scared of
him. Frank admits that he is envious of Mr Crocker Harris. Perhaps he lacks
that ‘effect’ which Harris has left over his students. Frank encourages
Taplow to criticize Crocker Harris. Actually, he urges him to intimate Harris.
This clearly reveals the working of his mind. He even asks Taplow to ‘cut’
Crocker Harris. He lacks Harris’s devotion. He teaches science but shows no
interest in his subject. This shows his lack of dedication and commitment
towards his profession.
8. Taplow
Taplow is a boy of sixteen studying in lower fifth. His attitude towards his
master Crocker Harris was quite mixed. He recognized his sense of
discipline, sense of devotion and stoic nature. But he had a personal grudge
against Mr. Crocker Harris. He had to do some extra work on the last day of
the school. Taplow was a bit anxious about his result, he afraid that Harris
might have marked him down. Taplow considered Mr. Crocker Harris different
from other teachers. Taplow criticized him for being feeling less yet regards
him an extraordinary man. He was mortally afraid of him but never called
him sadist. Taplow called his jokes classical and dry and condemned him 4
being little emotional. He didn’t like flattery and couldn’t be flattered.
Though he hated people to like him Taplow rather liked him. He recognized
the qualities of his teacher and never failed to praise those qualities before
others.
9.
10. AGAMEMNON
Agamemnon is a Greek tragic character written by Aeschylus. Aeschylus
describes Agamemnon’s death at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra, who was
angry at his sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia and keeping the Trojan
Prophetess Cassandra as a concubine. Cassandra enters the palace even
though she knows she is going to be murdered by Clytemnestra, knowing that
she cannot avoid her fate. The ending of the play includes a prediction of the
return of Orestes, son of Agamemnon, who will seek to avenge his father.
Why is this significant in the browning version?
Crocker Harris in this play, runs a lot of similarities with Agamemnon. The most
remarkable of them all is that both Agamemnon and Crocker Harris had
unfaithful wives and both were adamant and frightening. In Rattigan's play,
Harris was the most feared teacher in the school. In the given acts of play, he
is about to retire from the school service due to his advancing age and illness.
on the other hand, he is pained by the fact that his wife cheated on him with
his colleague, Frank.
11. WHY THE NAME?
In this play a translated version of Agamemnon plays a
very important role and the original play is translated to
English by Robert Browning.
12. THE PLAY
-IN BRIEF-
Andrew Crocker-Harris is a classics teacher at an English boys' school. After
eighteen years of teaching there, today is his last day before moving on to a
position at another school. The students speculate on why he is leaving, but
do not much care since despite being academically brilliant, he is generally
despised as being strict, stern and humourless. They have nicknamed him
"The Crock". Even the school administrators treat him poorly regardless of
his long tenure. Millie Crocker-Harris, his wife, is younger and vivacious and
quite different from her husband. She no longer loves him but rather loves
Frank Hunter, another teacher, yet despite having an affair with him she
knows he is not in love with her. On this last day, one student named
Taplow, who does not hate Crocker-Harris but feels sorry for him, gives him
a small going-away gift. The gift brings about a series of actions which
make Crocker-Harris reflect on his past, contemplate his future, and
evaluate how he is going to finish his tenure at the school.
13. PRODUCTIONS
In the original production, Crocker-Harris was played by Eric
Portman, and his wife by Mary Ellis. Barry Jones took over the role
of Crocker-Harris when Portman left in March 1949. The run ended
on 9 April 1949.
In 1949 the play was performed on Broadway, opening on 12
October at the Coronet Theater on 49th street with Maurice Evans
and Edna Best. The play and its companion-piece Harlequinade
failed to find favour with the New York critics, and closed after 62
performances. Peter Scott-Smith as John Taplow was the sole
member of the West End cast to reprise his role on Broadway.
The Theatre Royal Bath put the play on in 2009 in a double bill with
Chekhov's one-act play Swansong, both starring Peter Bowles. A
production at the Chichester Festival Theatre (alongside South
Downs, a new play written in response to it by David Hare) marked
Rattigan's centenary in 2011.
14. ADAPTATIONS
The play was subsequently made into two film versions, and at least four
television adaptations. The 1951 film version, starring Michael Redgrave as
Crocker-Harris, won two awards at the Cannes Film Festival, one for Rattigan's
screenplay, the other for Redgrave's performance. It was remade in 1994,
starring Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Modine, Julian
Sands and young Ben Silverstone. A British television version was made in
1955, starring Peter Cushing as Crocker-Harris. John Frankenheimer directed
John Gielgud in a 1959 television version for CBS. In 1960, Maurice Evans
repeated his Broadway role for CBC television under the sponsorship of Ford of
Canada in their Startime series. Another made-for-TV version in 1985 starred
Ian Holm as the main character for the BBC.
A radio version was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2011. It was directed by
Martin Jarvis, and featured Michael York, Joanne Whalley, Ioan Gruffudd and Ian
Ogilvy.
A staged reading was performed on 3 April 2012 at The Players Club in New
York City, presented by TAPT (The Artists' Playground Theater), directed by Alex
Kelly and starring Matthew Dure', Robert Lyons, Nichole Donje' Jeffrey Hardy,