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Peter Barnes (10 January 1931 – 1 July 2004) was an English Olivier Award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His best known work is the play The Ruling Class , which was made into a 1972 film for which Peter O'Toole received an Oscar nomination.
Feb 10, 2021 · Peter Barnes was one of our sharpest playwrights. So why don’t we see his work? After decades of unjust neglect, the writer of such dazzling satires as The Ruling Class is getting a small...
Jul 3, 2004 · Peter Barnes, the sardonic English playwright best known in this country for his play and film ''The Ruling Class,'' died on Thursday at a London hospital. He was 73.
Known best as a playwright of dark historical comedies, Barnes wrote widely for films, Peter Barnes was an Olivier Award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Barnes achieved critical acclaim and box-office success with his baroque comedy, The Ruling Class, in 1968.
Jul 5, 2004 · Peter Barnes, the award-winning playwright and screenwriter of “Enchanted April” and “The Ruling Class,” died July 1 in a London hospital after a stroke. He was 73. Barnes’ work was admired...
The death on 1 July 2004 of the playwright Peter Barnes robbed the British theatre of one of its most individual and richly imaginative yet shamefully neglected writers.
Peter Barnes. (1931—2004) playwright and screenwriter. Quick Reference. (1931–2004) Playwright, born in east London, educated at Stroud Grammar School. His first real success came with The Ruling Class (1969), a bizarre farce exploring the mechanics of power, but ... From: Barnes, Peter in The Oxford Companion to English Literature »
