Jack Gelernter Rosenthal

"P'Tang, Yang, Kipperbang" and Other T.V.Plays (New Longman Literature 14-18)

Comedy, Jack Rosenthal believes, is the best way to learn the truth about ourselves. But this collection of very funny TV Plays also has an underlying theme -- loneliness. The volume makes and excellent introduction to the study of media texts and includes an introductory conversation with the wri...

By Jack Rosenthal: An Autobiography in Six Acts

Jack Rosenthal had always resisted writing an autobiography, until he hit on an original way of writing it that excited him—it would be as a screenplay, with himself as the central character, and the supporting cast drawn from the many wonderful and eccentric people who touched, shaped, and shared t...

Jack Kerouac's Avatar Angel: His Last Novel

In his latest novel, Chuck Rosenthal brings Jack Kerouac back from the dead, creating a posthumous novel in the voice of the legendary beat novelist. On the road again, Kerouac is back to deliver the message of death's existential loneliness, only made worse by what he finds on his return to co...

Letters from an Airfield: The True Story of a GI Bride of the Mighty Eighth

Using letters and photographs preserved by his mother, Jack Rosenthal reconstructs the wartime relationship of his parents in this poignant and unconventional military history. Tracing their courtship from the day of its beginning in March 1944, to its culmination in marriage in July 1945, the narra...

Jack Rosenthal (Television)

This is the first-ever critical work on Jack Rosenthal, the award-winning British television dramatist. His career began with Coronation Street in the 1960s and he became famous for his popular sitcoms, including The Lovers and The Dustbinmen. During what is often known as the "golden age" of Britis...

Jack Rosenthal

Jack Morris Rosenthal CBE (8 September 1931 29 May 2004) was an English playwright, who wrote 129 early episodes of the ITV soap opera Coronation...

Three Award-Winning Television Plays

Creating Islands Of Excellence: Arts Education as a Partner in School Reform

The Chain With the Knowledge and Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill

London's Burning: The Screenplay of the Original Film of London's Burning