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\u201cAt eighty things do not occur; they recur.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Alan Bennett<\/strong>, English playwright, actor & author<\/p>\n

The Uncommon Reader<\/em> (2007) New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [first American edition], p. 83;\u00a0online via Scribd [subscription service] www.scribd.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf635381-89e5fc9a-de3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>[Fictional dialogue, \u2018The Queen\u2019 to an audience gathered for her 80th birthday]:<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd of course,\u201d said the Queen, \u201cit goes on, not a week passing without something of interest, a scandal, a cover-up or even a war. And since this is one\u2019s birthday you must not even think of looking peeved\u201d \u2013 the minister was studying the ceiling and the home secretary the carpet \u2013 \u201cfor one has a long perspective and it was ever thus. At eighty things do not occur; the recur.\u201d (p.83)<\/p>\n

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Source link<\/em><\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0The Uncommon Reader<\/em> (2007) Accessed online via Scribd [subscription service] International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-374-28096-7: https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/read\/182566102\/The-Uncommon-Reader-A-Novella<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315829087-ce67c619-0fbc5381-89e5fc9a-de3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cCancer, like any other illness, is a bore.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Alan Bennett<\/strong>, English playwright, actor & author<\/p>\n

Untold Stories <\/em>(2005) New York, NY: Picador [first eBook edition] March 2011, p. 823; online via Scribd [subscription service] www.scribd.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315829475-7c82a017-1e625381-89e5fc9a-de3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Memoir] \u201cI did not see cancer as a way of dramatizing my life, the lurid light of approaching death endowing even the most trivial events with a long shadow. Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.\u201d (p. 823)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c5381-89e5fc9a-de3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/span><\/strong><\/em>:\u00a0Untold Stories<\/em> (2005 \u2013 March 2011 ebook edition) Accessed online via Scribd [subscription service] – International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-312-42662-3: https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/read\/182525012\/Untold-Stories#<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5fc9a-de3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cDefinition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Alan Bennett<\/strong>, English playwright, actor & author<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Toad in All of Us\u201d (27 January 1991) Independent on Sunday<\/em>, Issue 53, London, England, column 2, p. 10; online via The Independent Digital Archive, 1986-2012<\/em>, Gale Group [subscription research service] Gale Document Number FQ4200281768<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e5fc9a-de3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0[Bennett, reflecting on the book he eventually used as a base for his play adaptation of The Wind in the Willows<\/em>, a play the article preface describes as \u201cthe biggest hit in the National Theatre\u2019s history.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was only in the Sixties, when I was rather haphazardly reading round the Edwardians with some vague idea of writing a history play (which eventually turned into Forty Years On<\/em>), that I read Kenneth Grahame\u2019s The Golden Age<\/em> and Dream Days<\/em>. I left The Wind in the Willows<\/em> until last because I thought I had read it already \u2013 this being virtually the definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.\u201d (p.10)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e5fc9a-de3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0The Independent on Sunday<\/em> (27 January 1991) The Independent Digital Archive, 1986-2012<\/em>, via Gale News Group, Gale Document Number FQ4200281768 [Accessed July 2016 \u2013 Washington University Library]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635381-89e5fc9a-de3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cI lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Alan Bennett<\/strong>, English playwright, actor & author<\/p>\n

An Englishman Abroad<\/em> (1988) first performed at the Royal National Theatre, London, England, 1 December 1988, playwright & director Alan Bennett, Simon Callow as \u2018Guy Burgess,\u2019 \u2013 part of double bill under the title Single<\/em> Spies<\/em>, script in Alan Bennett: Plays<\/em>, Vol. II, London: Faber & Faber, 1998, p. 290<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635381-89e5fc9a-de3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0[Play \u2013 Fiction, based on a true story \u2013 character \u2018Guy Burgess\u2019 to \u2018Coral Browne\u2019]:<\/p>\n

Burgess<\/u><\/strong> (gently<\/em>) \u201cThe system. Only, being English, you wouldn\u2019t be interested in that. (Pause<\/em>) My trouble is, I lack what the English call character. By which they mean the power to refrain. Appetite. The English never like that, do they? Unconcealed appetite. For success. Women. Money. Justice. Appetite makes them uncomfortable. What do people say about me in England?\u201d<\/p>\n

Coral<\/u><\/strong> \u201cThey don\u2019t say much any more.\u201d (p.290)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: An Englishman Abroad<\/em> was originally produced as a BBC television drama in 1983.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635381-89e5fc9a-de3d”][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source<\/em><\/span><\/strong>:\u00a0Library \u2013 Alan Bennett: Plays <\/em>(1998) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-571-19442-7<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

Resources<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” el_class=”Wrapper-Author-Resources”]Learn more about Alan Bennett<\/strong><\/span>| Here are a few good places to find out more –<\/p>\n