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Informationen zum Autor Ian Greaves is archivist to the playwright N.F. Simpson, whose work he edited for two print collections in 2013. He is the co-author of Prime Minister, You Wanted To See Me? - A History of Week Ending (Kaleidoscope, 2008), and consulted and researched on Lucian Randall’s biography of Chris Morris, Disgusting Bliss (Simon and Schuster, 2010). An occasional broadcaster, Ian has also devised documentaries for Radio 4 on Douglas Adams and Dudley Moore and is a contributor to BFI Screenonline. He can be contacted here and on Twitter . Klappentext 'Do you sometimes think that you might wish that you were a national treasure, like Alan Bennett?' 'I'm rather glad I'm not. I'm quite pleased to be what I think I am, which is a sort of national liability.' Over the course of seven decades, Jonathan Miller has been at the forefront of developments in theatre, opera, comedy, philosophy and scientific debate. This new collection brings together the very best of his acerbic writing. In keeping with Miller's grasshopper mind, One Thing and Another leaps from discussions of human behaviour, atheism, satire, cinema and television, to analysis of the work of M. R. James, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens and Truman Capote, by way of reflections on directing Shakespeare, Chekhov, Olivier and opera. A celebrated conversationalist, the book also features a selection of key interviews focusing on his working method. Jonathan Miller is internationally celebrated as one of the last great public intellectuals. Read One Thing and Another to find out why. Zusammenfassung The book guides the reader through Miller's revue writing in the 1950s and 1960s, to his emergence as a public intellectual and as enfant terrible of the international opera circuit from the mid-70s to the present day. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword A Note on the Text Acknowledgements Chronology Collected Writings Notes Bibliography Index ...
