CRITICISM

Blansfield, Karen C. “Michael Frayn.” In British Playwrights, 1956-1995: A Research and Production Sourcebook, edited by William W. Demastes, pp. 143-57. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Blansfield presents an overview of Frayn's dramatic works, including reference sources, through 1995.

Coates, Joseph. “Getting What You Want.” Chicago Tribune (22 February 1993): 5.

Coates applauds the character development in Now You Know, describing the novel as “half farce, half tragedy, and all comedy.”

Frayn, Michael, and John L. DiGaetani. “Michael Frayn.” In A Search for a Postmodern Theater: Interviews with Contemporary Playwrights, pp. 73-81. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.

Frayn discusses playwriting, trends in modern theatre, and his body of work.

Gottlieb, Vera. “Why This Farce?” New Theatre Quarterly 7, no. 27 (August 1991): 217-28.

Gottlieb compares Frayn's works with the plays of nineteenth-century Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.

Harrell, Wade. “When the Parody Parodies Itself: The Problem with Michael Frayn's Noises Off.” In From the Bard to Broadway, pp. 87-93. Landham, Md.: University Presses of America, 1987.

Harrell discusses Noises Off in terms of genre classification and the conventions of dramatic parody.

King, Robert L. “The Play of Uncertain Ideas.” Massachusetts Review 42, no. 1 (spring 2001): 165-75.

King evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of Copenhagen.

Pais, Abraham, and Michael Frayn. “What Happened in Copenhagen?: A Physicist's View and the Playwright's Response.” Hudson Review 53, no. 2 (summer 2000): 182-91.

Pais, a physicist, offers his critique of Copenhagen, with Frayn providing a response to Pais's commentary.

Posner, Michael. “The Uncertainty about Heisenberg.” Queen's Quarterly 110, no. 1 (spring 2003): 87-92.

Posner discusses the historical basis of Frayn's Copenhagen, praising the play for remaining “appropriately agnostic.”

Rocamora, Carol. “Scientific Dramaturgy.” Nation 270, no. 22 (5 June 2000): 49-51.

Rocamora praises Copenhagen as a “theatrical tour de force,” applauding Frayn's treatment of “the greatest moral questions of our time.”

Ruddick, Nick. “The Search for Quantum Ethics: Michael Frayn's Copenhagen and Other Recent British Science Plays.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 11, no. 4 (2001): 415-31.

Ruddick examines of the treatment of scientific concepts and ethical questions in several plays, including Copenhagen.

Wolf, Matt. Review of Benefactors, by Michael Frayn. Variety 387, no. 9 (22 July 2002): 32.

Wolf offers a positive assessment of Benefactors, describing it as remarkable and riveting.

Additional coverage of Frayn's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: British Writers Supplement, Vol. 7; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8R; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 30, 69, 114; Contemporary British Dramatists; Contemporary Dramatists, Ed. 5; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 3, 7, 31, 47; Contemporary Novelists, Ed. 7; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 13, 14, 194, 245; DISCovering Authors Modules: Dramatists, Novelists; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers; and St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers, Ed. 4.