Single Spies and Talking Heads: Two Plays About Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt - Hardcover

Bennett, Alan

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9780671692490: Single Spies and Talking Heads: Two Plays About Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt

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ISBN 10: 0671692496 ISBN 13: 9780671692490

Publisher: Touchstone, 1990

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Bennett, Alan

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Bennet is best known as a member of the quartet (along with Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, and Jonathan Miller) responsible for the comedically influential London and Broadway revue Beyond the Fringe . "An Englishman Abroad" and "A Question of Attribution," the two one-act plays here which comprise Single Spies, concern, respectively, Guy Burgess, a Foreign Office diplomat, and (Sir) Anthony Blunt, an eminent art historian and former Keeper of the Royal Pictures, both spies recruited by the KGB during World War II. The resultant juxtaposition is an interesting portrait of the traitor in exile (Burgess) and a metaphorical discussion between critic (Blunt) and monarch concerning art forgery. The six monologs of Talking Heads, originally written for television, are all delightfully quirky; the abundance of British idioms and expressions may thwart North American readers. For all libraries actively collecting 20th-century British playscripts.
- Barry Miller, Austin P.L., Tex.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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