From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ronald Hayman
Ronald Hayman
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Born May 2, 1942 (1942-05-02) • John Arden (1968)
Bournemouth, England
• John Osborne (1968)
Occupation Dramatist, Biographer, Critic, Writer, • Techniques of Acting (1969)
Director • Robert Bolt (1969)
Nationality British
• Arnold Wesker (1970)
• Harold Pinter (1970)
Ronald Hayman (born May 4, 1932) is a British critic, • Samuel Beckett (1970)
dramatist, and writer best known for his biographies. • John Whiting (1970)
• Tolstoy (1970)
• John Gielgud (1971)
Biography • Edward Albee (1971)
• Arguing with Walt Whitman: An Essay on His Influence on
Early life Twentieth-Century American Verse (1971)
Ronald Hayman was born on May 4, 1932 in • Arthur Miller (1972)
Bournemouth, England to John and Sadie Hayman. He • Playback (1973)
was educated at St Paul’s School in London and at Trinity • The Set-up: An Anatomy of the English Theatre Today
Hall, Cambridge University, where he earned a B.A. in (1973)
1954 and an M.A. in 1963. He served in the Royal Air Force • Playback II (1973)
for a one year duty, from 1950-1951. • The First Thrust: the Chichester Festival Theatre (1975)
After reading English at Cambridge in 1954, Hayman • Leavis (1976)
went to Germany for two years, mainly to write. He be- • Eugène Ionesco (1976)
came involved in professional theatre after playing the • The Novel Today, 1967-1975 (1976)
lead in Love’s Labour’s Lost with English amateurs in Ber- • Tom Stoppard (1977)
lin. He then attended drama school and acted for three • How to Read a Play (1977)
years in rep and on television. • Artaud and After (1977)
• De Sade: A Critical Biography (1978)
Writing career • British Theatre since 1955: A Reassessment (1979)
• Theatre and Anti-Theatre: New Movements Since Beckett
His first play, The End of an Uncle, was staged at Wimble-
(1979)
don in 1959. He made his debut as a director with Jean
• Nietzsche: A Critical Life (1980)
Genet’s Deathwatch at the Arts Theatre in 1960 and in
• Franz Kafka’ (1982)
1961 was awarded an ABC Television traineeship, which
• Brecht (1983)
took him to Northampton for a year as assistant produc-
• Bertolt Brecht: The Plays (1984)
er. He also directed Bertolt Brecht’s In the Jungle of Cities
• Fassbinder: Film Maker (1984)
and Robin Maugham’s The Servant. Hayman has directed
• Gunter Grass (1985)
at Theatre Royal Stratford East, Farnham, the Edinburgh
• Secrets: Boyhood in a Jewish Hotel, 1932-1954 (1985)
Festival, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, and Guildford, and for
• Writing Against: A Biography Of Sartre (1986)
Open Space. His one-man show with Max Adrian as Ge-
• My Cambridge (1986) editor
orge Bernard Shaw transferred to the West End and went
• Proust – A Biography (1990)
on a world tour.[1]
• The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath (1992)
He has been a regular contributor to the Arts page
• Tennessee Williams: Everyone Else is an Audience (1993)
of The Times and to the New Review. He broadcasts on
• Thomas Mann (1995)
arts programmes and has lectured for the University of
• Nietzsche (1997)
London Department of English Literature. In the 1970s
• Hitler and Geli (1998)
he lectured on Shakespeare and the traditions of English
• A Life of Jung (2001)
acting for the Tufts University of London program.[2]
• Marquis De Sade: The Genius of Passion (2003)
His 1995 play Playing the Wife is based on August
Strindberg’s second marriage to the Austrian Frida Uhl.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ronald Hayman
References Alternative names
Short description
[1] The Tufts in London 9 Faculty, handout, Tufts
University, 1973. Date of birth May 2, 1942
[2] Concise Encyclopedia of Tufts History, Document ID Place of birth Bournemouth, England
tufts:central:dca:UA069:UA069.005.DO.00001, 2004. Date of death
Place of death
Persondata
Name Hayman, Ronald
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