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James David Rudkin (born 29 June 1936) is an English playwright of Northern Irish descent.〔("BBC page for ''Giant's Cause''" ) Retrieved on 5 October 2009〕 Rudkin was born in London. Coming from a family of strict evangelical Christians,〔''Anger and After'' by John Russell Taylor p.279 of revised 1963 Pelican edition〕 he was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and read Mods and Greats at St Catherine's College, Oxford. Beginning to write during national service in the Royal Corps of Signals, Rudkin taught Latin, Greek and music at North Bromsgrove High School in Worcestershire until 1964,〔Biographical information on cover of ''The Triumph of Death'', Methuen 1981 ISBN 0-413-49110-2 and ''The Saxon Shore'', Methuen 1986 ISBN 0-413-14100-4〕 while also directing amateur theatre productions.〔John Russell Taylor ''Anger and After'', Harmondesworth: Pelican, 1963 ed., pp.279-280〕 Following the success of his first play ''Afore Night Come'' (1962), Rudkin translated works by Aeschylus, Roger Vitrac, the libretto of Schoenberg's ''Moses and Aaron'', and wrote the book to the Western Theatre Ballet's ''Sun into Darkness'' (Sadlers Wells 1963)〔John Russell Taylor ''Anger & After'', Methuen University Paperback, 1969 reprint, p.309〕 and the libretto for Gordon Crosse's comic opera, ''The Grace of Todd''.〔 Rudkin's major works for the stage include ''Ashes'' (1974), ''The Sons of Light'' (written in 1965 though not staged until 1975), ''The Triumph of Death'' (1981) and ''The Saxon Shore'' (1986). His associations with the RSC also led him to translate the ''Hippolytus'' of Euripides for the company in 1978, having translated the author's ''Hecuba'' for radio three years previously.〔 He has written for television, including ''The Stone Dance'' (1963), ''Children Playing'' (1967), ''House of Character'' (1968)〔 (staged by the Birmingham Rep as ''No Title'' in 1974), ''Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage'' (1969), ''Bypass'' (1972), ''Atrocity'' (1973), the Alan Clarke-directed ''Penda's Fen'' (1974), and ''Artemis 81'' (1981); for radio, including ''No Accounting for Taste'' (1960), ''Gear Change'' (1967),〔 ''Cries from Casement as His Bones are Brought to Dublin'' (1973) (also staged by the RSC); and for cinema, including François Truffaut's ''Fahrenheit 451'' (1966). He has also written a volume in the British Film Institute's "Film Classics" series, a 2005 study of Carl Theodor Dreyer's ''Vampyr''.〔''Vampyr'', BFI, ISBN 978-1-84457-073-7〕 ==Works== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Rudkin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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