Swanker
Ronald Bryden, 10 December 1987
The Life of Kenneth Tynan
by Kathleen Tynan.
Weidenfeld, 407 pp., £16.95, September 1987,9780297790822 Show More
by Kathleen Tynan.
Weidenfeld, 407 pp., £16.95, September 1987,
“... dramaturg. ‘How shall we slaughter the little bastard?’ snorted Olivier, handing his letter to Joan Plowright, whom he had married in the interim. Tynan had contributed, Olivier believed, to his – Olivier’s – first wife’s mental breakdown by his derisive reviews. More recently, he had attacked the Chichester Festival, under cover of which Olivier ... ”