Benson and the Bensonians

Name: Benson and the Bensonians
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU: 9781448208593
Price: 16.99 EUR
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English

By (author): J. C. Trewin

A continuously surprising full length biography of the astonishing founder of the Benson Company who in the early twentieth century 'went up and down the land that the people might meet Shakespeare played by a company dedicated to his service'. This is the story of the patrician Adonis, son of a country squire, who on the strength of playing Agamemnon in Balliol Hall, decided to clean up the English stage with Shakespeare and athletics. A book of amazing range of interest, almost every page of which throws light on the beginnings of those whose names became illustrations in the twentieth century theatre. See more

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Publication Date: 20 Feb 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781448208593

About J. C. Trewin

J.C.Trewin was a British journalist drama critic and theatrical historian. His parents were Cornish but he was born in Plymouth in 1908 and brought up in Cornwall. Educated at Plymouth College his first job was as a cub reporter on the city's Sunday newspaper the Western Independent in 1926. After six years he left for London and joined the Morning Post as a reporter and drama critic. On the paper's closure in 1937 he moved to The Observer doubling as a drama critic and later as literary editor. From the early 1950s he concentrated on the theatre working for a number of publications including Punch the Listener the Birmingham Post the Illustrated London News and The Lady. He wrote some forty books of theatre history and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1981. He died in 1990. He is memorialised by the British Critics' Circle in an award that bears his name (and that of his wife Wendy) for the best Shakespearean performance of the year.