The Habit of Art

A Play

Fiction & Literature, Drama, British & Irish, Nonfiction, Entertainment
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Author: Alan Bennett ISBN: 9781429978330
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: September 14, 2010
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: Alan Bennett
ISBN: 9781429978330
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: September 14, 2010
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W. H. Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first in twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, among others, their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station.

Alan Bennett's new play is as much about the theater as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion's spent: ultimately, on the habit of art.

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Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W. H. Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first in twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, among others, their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station.

Alan Bennett's new play is as much about the theater as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion's spent: ultimately, on the habit of art.

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