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l i b r a r y

Most of Alan Bates's plays, films and television films began as
books; this is an annotated list. Many can be found easily at your
library or bookstore. Titles which are out of print in the
US are often available in England, or via the Internet's
excellent resources such as MXBookfinder.

G through Z

The Go-Between (novel)
L. P. Hartley
Penguin USA, ISBN 0-140-01306-7

The Go-Between (screenplay)
Harold Pinter, "Five Screenplays"
Grove Press, ISBN 0-394-17802-5
 
The Grotesque (novel, became Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets)
Patrick McGrath
Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-671-66509-X
Hard Times (novel)
Charles Dickens
Bantam Books, ISBN 0-553-21016-5
  A Hero of Our Time (novel)
Mikhail Y. Lermontov
Penguin USA, ISBN 0-140-44176-X
 
Impossible Object (novel, became Story of a Love Story)
Nicholas Mosley
Coward/McGann, Inc., ISBN: 1-299-42186-5
 
In Celebration (play)
David Storey
Grove Press, ISBN 0-394-17880-3
Ivanov; The Sea Gull; and The Three Sisters (plays)
Anton Chekhov
Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-192-81032-4
A Kind of Loving (novel, author's first book)
Stan Barstow
Michael Joseph, London
 
Life Class (play)
David Storey
Jonathan Cape, London, ISBN 0-224-01110-3
Life Support (play)
Simon Gray
Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-19343-9
  Look Back in Anger (play)
John Osborne
 
Mabuse der Spieler (novel, basis for Docteur M / Club Extinction)
Norbert Jacques
  Man and Boy (play)
Terence Rattigan, 1964 (his last play)
ISBN 0-91027-842-3
The Master Builder (play)
Henrik Ibsen
Ivan R. Dee, Inc., ISBN 1-56663-042-8
 
The Mayor of Casterbridge (novel)
Thomas Hardy
Penguin USA, ISBN 0-140-43125-X
Melon (play)
Simon Gray
Methuen, London, available from Heinemann, US.
ISBN 0-413-16550-7
  A Memory of Two Mondays (play)
Arthur Miller
New York Dramatists Play Service
 

The Nicholas Effect (nonfiction)
Reg Green
O'Reilly, ISBN 1-56592-597-1

"When Nicholas Green was shot to death in Italy, the world reacted with horror. After his parents donated his organs to seven very sick Italians, their gift sent an electric charge through the human spirit. Now for the first time, Reg Green speaks about his son's death. This book is a story of grace, dignity and how one family turned senseless tragedy into a life-affirming gesture." [This book is related to the 1998 CBS-tv film "Nicholas' Gift," starring Alan Bates and Jamie Lee Curtis.]

  Nothing But the Best (novel)
Stanley Ellin 
 
Oliver's Travels (novel)
Alan Plater
Little, Brown (UK), ISBN 0-751-51037-8
One for the Road (play)
Harold Pinter
Methuen, ISBN 0-413-58370-8
includes a conversation between Pinter and Nick Hern,
about the play and its politics, and Ivan Kyncl photos from the BBC television production.
Otherwise Engaged (play)
Simon Gray
Samuel French, London, ISBN 0-573-01261-X
Note: Simply Disconnected, 1996 (below), is a sequel, 20 years on, to Otherwise Engaged. Life Support, 1997 (above), is an associated play in which Jeff Golding (JG), a secondary character in the first two, is central. And to further complicate matters, Jeff Golding also appears as Dean of Students in Gray's new novel, Breaking Hearts, Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-17238-5.
 
A Patriot for Me (play)
John Osborne
Faber & Faber, London, ISBN 0-571-13041-0
 
Plaintiffs & Defendants (play)
Simon Gray
Faber & Faber, London, ISBN 0-571-13041-0
Poor Richard (play)
Jean Kerr
Doubleday
 
Prayer for the Dying (novel)
Jack Higgins
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, ISBN: 0-030-10806-3
 
Quartet (novel)
Jean Rhys
W. W. Norton & Co., ISBN 0-393-31546-0
Return of the Soldier (novel)
Rebecca West
Carroll & Graf
ISBN 0-786-70347-4
 
Royal Flash (novel)
George Macdonald Fraser
Penguin USA, ISBN 0-452-26112-0
 
Separate Tables
Two one-act plays:Table by the Window, Table Number Seven
Terence Rattigan
Hamish Hamilton, Random House, Signet
Shakespeare (Bates has appeared in the following plays):
Antony & Cleopatra (Antony, RSC, 1999)
A Winter's Tale (Florizel, Caedmon Audio, 1961)
The Comedy of Errors (one of the twins, 1955)
Hamlet (as Claudius, 1990; as Hamlet, 1971)
Julius Caesar (Mark Antony, Caedmon Audio, 1964)
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Master Ford, 1967)
Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick, 1989)
Othello (Cassio, Caedmon Audio, 1960)
Richard III (title role, 1967)
Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio, RSC, 1970's)
Timon of Athens (title role, RSC, 1999)
 
The Shout (novel)
Robert Graves
Penguin USA, ISBN: 0-140-04832-4-9
The Showman (play)
Thomas Bernhard 
Shuttlecock (novel)
Graham Swift
Description, from the book jacket: "A psychological thriller from the widely acclaimed author of Waterland. Prentis, senior clerk in the 'dead crimes' division of the London Police Department, suspects his boss is trying to drive him crazy. But why? In a race against his own ebbing sanity he uncovers a trail of blackmail and horror that leads to his father--a war hero code-named 'Shuttlecock,' whose memoirs tell a tale of espionage, torture and long-hidden betrayal."
Washington Square Press, ISBN 0-671-54612-0
Stages (play)
Storey Plays: One
David Storey
Methuen, ISBN: 0-413-67350-2
  States of Shock, Far North, Silent Tongue (plays)
Sam Shepard
Peter Smith Publisher, ISBN: 0-844-66752-8
Simply Disconnected
(see Otherwise Engaged, above)
Simon Gray
Faber & Faber, ISBN 0-571-17972-X
Stage Struck (play)
Simon Gray
Seaver Books
ISBN 0-394-51804-7
 
Ticket to Ride (novel, became "Secret Friends")
Dennis Potter
Vintage Books, ISBN 0-679-72353-6
 
The Trespasser (novel)
D.H. Lawrence
Penguin USA, ISBN 0-140-18210-1
Two Sundays (play)
Simon Gray
Faber & Faber, London
(collected with Otherwise Engaged and
Plaintiffs & Defendants)
 
Very Like a Whale (play for television)
John Osborne
Faber & Faber, ISBN 0-571-09628-X
 
Victoria Station (play)
Harold Pinter 

Voyage Round My Father (play)
John Mortimer
Penguin USA
ISBN 0-140-48169-9

 

 

We Think the World of You (novel)
Joseph R. Ackerley
 
Women In Love (novel)
D. H. Lawrence
Penguin USA, ISBN 0-140-18816-9
Yonadab (play) Lettice and Lovage / Yonadab
Peter Shaffer
Penguin Books Ltd, ISBN 0-140-48218-0
Shaffer was inspired to write Yonadab by
The Rape of Tamar, a novel by Dan Jacobson
 
Zorba the Greek (novel)
Nikos Kazantzakis
Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-671-21132-3

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