The Browning Version (play)

The Browning Version
Programme for original Broadway production with Maurice Evans & Edna Best
Written byTerence Rattigan
CharactersTaplow, Andrew Crocker-Harris, Frank, Mrs Crocker-Harris
Date premiered8 September 1948
Place premieredPhoenix Theatre, London
Original languageEnglish
SettingA British public school
For other uses, see The Browning Version (disambiguation).

The Browning Version is a play by Terence Rattigan, seen by many as his best work, and first performed on 8 September 1948 at the Phoenix Theatre, London.[1][2] It was originally one of two short plays, jointly titled "Playbill"; the companion piece being Harlequinade, which forms the second half of the evening.[3] The Browning Version is set in a boys' public school and the Classics teacher in the play, Crocker-Harris, is believed to have been based on Rattigan's Classics tutor at Harrow School, J. W. Coke Norris (1874–1961).[4]

  1. ^ "The Browning Version – Drama Online". dramaonlinelibrary.com.
  2. ^ Richards, Jeffrey (18 October 1988). Happiest Days: The Public Schools in English Fiction. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719018794 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ "Phoenix Theatre", The Times, 9 September 1948, p. 7
  4. ^ "Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory –" (PDF). utexas.edu.