![]() However, by next turning, in The Madness of George III, to one of the Queen’s ancestors and the period of mental incapacity that led to parliamentary steps towards deposition, Bennett was for the first time accepted as an equal as well as a contemporary of Tom Stoppard and Michael Frayn. ![]() Even the better-liked A Question of Attribution (1988), an Anthony Blunt bio-drama that became the first UK stage play to depict Queen Elizabeth II, confirmed for some, by being rapidly shown on the BBC, that telly was his prime territory. ![]() In the previous decade, Enjoy had flopped horribly in the West End (it subsequently seems more interesting as one of the first plays to feature a transgender character), and Kafka’s Dick had a short run at the Royal Court. When Alan Bennett’s The Madness of George III premiered at the National Theatre in 1991, the writer, it seems hard to imagine now, was considered more an actor-comedian and TV playwright than a stage dramatist. ![]()
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