Benedict Nightingale

Standard Name: Nightingale, Benedict

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Nell Dunn
ND received the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for Steaming in 1981, and the Evening Standard Award and the Society of West End Theatre Award in 1982.
Berney, Kathryn A., editor. Contemporary Dramatists. 5th ed., St James Press, 1993.
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Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Reviews in 1997, on the other hand, were...
Literary responses Harold Pinter
Nevertheless, reviews in the daily and Sunday papers were bad (including those of Bernard Levin and, more surprisingly, Michael Billington ).
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010.
101-2, 112
Benedict Nightingale in the New Statesman provided an appreciative notice and called...
Literary responses Harold Pinter
Benedict Nightingale reviewed it enthusiastically for The Guardian.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010.
211
Literary responses Louise Page
Once again LP divided the critics. Alistair Macaulay praised the contrasts in sensibility and in diction between past and present, while Benedict Nightingale found the dialogue emotionally constrained.
Eisen, Kurt. “Louise Page”. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. A Research and Production Source Book, edited by William W. Demastes, Greenwood Press, 1996, pp. 291-00.
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Nightingale, Benedict. “Review of David Hare, The Permanent WayTimes.