| Description | File containing typescript of Philip Burton's autobiography. His discussions include: working as a schoolteacher and as a lecturer for the Workers' Educational Association in Port Talbot, association with amateur dramatic societies in South Wales, writing plays, his relationship with Richard Burton, his career as a BBC producer, the BBC during wartime, working with Dylan Thomas, his tenure as Director of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and lecture tours in the U.S. Final chapter is a critical reading of Shakespeare in which he discusses his approach to translating text into performance. File also includes a few pages of critical comments on the autobiography [possibly by publisher from the Dial Press] |