Kenneth Tynan
Sign in to saveAlso known as Kenneth Peacock Tynan, Ken Tynan
English theatre critic and writer (1927-1980)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1927
- Died
- 1980
- Works
- 39
Top works
- Just plain folks
- Kenneth Tynan, letters
- Prologue to Oh! Calcutta!
- The tragedy of Macbeth
- The diaries of Kenneth Tynan
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method
· 2001 · cited 163,120x
- Differential Evolution – A Simple and Efficient Heuristic for global Optimization over Continuous Spaces
· 1997 · cited 24,705x
- Analyzing real-time PCR data by the comparative CT method
· 2008 · cited 23,548x
- Common risk factors in the returns on stocks and bonds
· 1993 · cited 20,494x
- Physisorption of gases, with special reference to the evaluation of surface area and pore size distribution (IUPAC Technical Report)
· 2015 · cited 19,542x
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Quotes
- “A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.”
- “Lenny Bruce ... [is] the most original, free-speaking, wild-thinking gymnast of language this inhibited island has ever engaged to amuse its citizens.”
- “[A]t the end he had broken through frontiers of language and feeling that one had hitherto thought inviolable ...”
- “I believe in neither a director’s nor a writer’s theatre, but a theatre of intelligent audiences. I count myself as a member of an intelligent audience, and I wrote to you as such. That you should disagree with me I can understand, but that you should resent my expressing my opinions is something that frankly amazes me. I thought we had outgrown the idea of theatre as a mystic rite born of secret communion between author, director, actors and an empty auditorium.”
- “I doubt if there are very many rational people in this world to whom the word "fuck" is particularly diabolical or revolting or totally forbidden.”
- “Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship.”
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