One Thing and Another: Selected Writings 1954-2016
Jonathan Miller
Mar 2017 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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464
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About this ebook
'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.
'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.
About the author
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBE is a British theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist, and medical doctor. He was an associate director at the National Theatre and Artistic Director of the Old Vic Theatre. As writer/presenter of more than a dozen BBC documentaries, he has become a well-known television personality and familiar public intellectual in both Britain and the United States.
Ian Greaves is an archivist, whose work includes The Art of Invective: Selected Non-Fiction 1953–1994 by the playwright Dennis Potter. An occasional broadcaster, Ian has also devised documentaries for Radio 4 and is a contributor to BFI Screenonline.
Ian Greaves is an archivist, whose work includes The Art of Invective: Selected Non-Fiction 1953–1994 by the playwright Dennis Potter. An occasional broadcaster, Ian has also devised documentaries for Radio 4 and is a contributor to BFI Screenonline.
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