Robin Chapman

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Robin John Chapman (18 January 1933 – 29 July 2020) was an English novelist, playwright and screenwriter.

Early life

Chapman was born in

Marlowe Society, before acting at Stratford-upon-Avon and working in repertory. He then joined Joan Littlewood's revolutionary Theatre Workshop
, where he turned to writing.

Plays and screenwriting

Among Chapman's stage plays are High Street China, Guests and One of Us.

He enjoyed a long career in television, favoured by Granada TV during its early days. His best-known work includes

Tales of the Unexpected. In 1973 he scripted the six-episode BBC television drama series A Picture of Katherine Mansfield, and in 1976 he adapted two Graham Greene short stories, "Dream of a Strange Land" and "Under the Garden", for episodes of Shades of Greene presented by Thames Television.[2] Chapman's single plays for television include Blunt: The Fourth Man (1987) and two editions of Play for Today
, all three presented by BBC TV.

His television plays have won awards from the

BAFTA
nomination.

Chapman edited, with an introduction, The City and the Court, a collection of five Jacobean-era comedies.

His film screenplays include:

Novels

Chapman's published novels are:

  • A Waste of Public Money (1962)
  • My Vision's Enemy (1968)
  • Big Breadwinner Hog (1970)
  • Christoferus (1994)
  • Wartimes (two novellas in one volume) (1995)
  • The Secret of the World (1997)
  • The Spanish Trilogy (2005)
    • The Duchess's Diary (1980)
    • Sancho's Golden Age (2004)
    • Pasamonte's Life (2005)
  • Abundance (2009)
  • Shakespeare's Don Quixote (2011)
  • Throwing Pigeons out of Aeroplanes (2016)

The Spanish Trilogy extends the lives and experiences of characters found in Miguel de Cervantes' early 17th-century novel Don Quixote. The first book of the trilogy, The Duchess’s Diary, was positively reviewed.[4] Noted Cervantes scholar E. C. Riley,[5] writing a 1980 review in The Times Literary Supplement, called it "a truer understanding of Cervantes than twenty books of criticism".[6]

Shakespeare's Don Quixote is a narrative dialogue featuring

Shakespeare, John Fletcher and Cervantes, as they talk amongst themselves while watching "actors" Don Quixote and Sancho Panza performing a present-day fringe theatre production of the Shakespeare-Fletcher lost play The History of Cardenio, about Cervantes' teenaged character in Don Quixote.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Cambridge University Tripos Results", The Times, 18 June 1956, p. 7.
  2. ^ Greene, Graham (1975). Shades of Greene. London: The Bodley Head / William Heinemann.
  3. ^ Flanagan, Kevin M. “Tragedy, Bleakness, Cynicism, and Existentialism in British War Cinema, 1956–1982.” War Representation in British Cinema and Television. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG, 2019. 27–62.
  4. ^ Conant, Oliver (1985) "HOSTESS TO CERVANTES", The New York Times, 17 March 1985, retrieved 2011-07-12
  5. ^ compiled by Jeremy Robbins and Daniel Eisenberg (2002). "Publications of E. C. Riley" (PDF). Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America. 2002 (1): 17–26. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  6. ISSN 0307-661X
    . Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  7. ^ "BOOK NOW PUBLISHING: Shakespeare's Don Quixote". booknowpublishing.com. Retrieved 2 July 2020.

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