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THE AGONY and the elitism of Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version (15) are caught in an anecdote Rattigan's first biographers told about its composition: "One day while he was at work on it, his manservant came in to find tears streaming down his face." There you have the starchy, upper-class world of the play - a public school in the late 1940s - and the terrible, private pain that courses through it. In Andrew Crocker-Harris (Albert Finney), a teacher about to take early retirement, whose brilliant classical scholarship has long since soured into finicky self-parody, Rattigan created one of the great figures of the post-war English stage. And in the drawing-room formality of his ...

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