T. C. Worsley

T. C. Worsley

Thomas Cuthbert Worsley (1907–1977), who wrote as T. C. Worsley, was a British teacher, writer, and theatre and television critic.

Biography

T. C. Worsley was born on December 10, 1907, in Durham. He was educated at the Llandaff Cathedral school and then at Marlborough College. Following this he went to St John's College, Cambridge University where he read classics. In 1929 he became an assistant master at Wellington College, Berkshire. With Stephen Spender he went to Spain during the Spanish Civil War, some of his experiences being recorded decades later in "Fellow Travellers". He later worked for the left-wing magazine New Statesman as literary editor and drama critic. In 1958 he moved to the Financial Times as theatre and television critic. [http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biow3/wors1.html]

He suffered from emphysema and died on February 23, 1977, in Kemp Town, Brighton.

Bibliography

*"Behind the Battle" (1939)
*"Education Today - and Tomorrow" (with W. H. Auden) (1939)
*"Barbarians and Philistines: Democracy and the Public Schools" (1940)
*"The End of the Old School Tie" (1941)
*"Shakespeare's Histories at Stratford 1951" (with J. Dover Wilson) (1952)
*"The Fugitive Art: Dramatic Commentaries 1947-1951" (1952)
*"" (1967)
*"Five Minutes, Sir Matthew" (1969)
*"Television: The Ephemeral Art" (1970)
*"Fellow Travellers: A Memoir of the Thirties" (1971)


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