For the British skier, see Ronald Duncan (alpine skier).
Ronald Duncan
Personal details
Born
Ronald Frederick Henry Dunkelsbühler
(1914-08-06)6 August 1914 Salisbury, Mashonaland, Rhodesia
Died
3 June 1982(1982-06-03) (aged 67) Bideford Hospital, Barnstaple, Devon, England
Spouse
Rose Marie Hansom
(m. 1941)
Children
Briony Duncan (b.1941) Roger Duncan (b.1943)
Parent(s)
Reginald John Dünkelsbuhler Ethel Cannon
Residence(s)
West Mill, Welcombe, Devon, England
Education
Downing College, Cambridge
Occupation
Writer, poet, playwright and librettist
Known for
The Rape of Lucretia (libretto) The Horse (poem)
Ronald Frederick Henry Duncan (6 August 1914 – 3 June 1982) was an English writer, poet and playwright of German descent, now best known for his poem The Horse and for preparing the libretto for Benjamin Britten's opera The Rape of Lucretia, first performed in 1946.[1]
^Duncan, Ronald (1953) The Rape of Lucretia. London: Faber and Faber
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The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: Opera in two acts, 107'. Libretto by RonaldDuncan, after the play Le Viol de Lucrèce by André Obey. Premiered on 12 July...
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Two-Sixty Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-02-921620-0. Thomas Carlyle Jones; RonaldDuncan Hunt; Norval W. King (1997). Veterinary Pathology. Wiley-Blackwell....
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French theatrical release poster Directed by Jack Cardiff Screenplay by RonaldDuncan Adaptation by Jack Cardiff Thought sequences dialogue by Gillian Freeman...
Sciences. Springer. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-412-53710-3. Thomas Carlyle Jones; RonaldDuncan Hunt; Norval W. King (1997). Veterinary pathology. Wiley-Blackwell....
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minor alterations, Britten, with the help of another writer friend, RonaldDuncan, made a substantial change to Slater's text, rewriting Grimes's "mad"...
MacRae. They had five sons and a daughter: Alisdair, William, James, Ronald, Duncan, and Jean. All of their sons became directors of Speedo. MacRae died...
a History teacher at Nanyang Girls' High School until 2022. Lachlan RonaldDuncan Mackintosh, 30th chief 1995 Served in the Royal Navy, with the rank...
occasions". Something very similar happened to another Britten librettist, RonaldDuncan. Crozier wrote the libretto for Ruth, a 1956 sacred opera by Lennox...
Neither did another proposed subject, The Catalyst, based on a play by RonaldDuncan about male bisexuality. Aldrich would attempt to make Taras Bulba several...
Reversing Educational Decline (1987) The Logic of Mortality (1987) Duncan, Ronald; Wilson, Colin (1987), "Prophesy or Philosophy? Historicism or History...
general manager. In 1954, Lewenstein, together with George Devine, RonaldDuncan and Greville Poke, founded the English Stage Company (ESC) with a mission...
fallen out of favour, such as his former librettists Eric Crozier and RonaldDuncan. Between 1966 and 1970 Holst recorded a number of her father's works...
Wayland and HP Henry. "Isshinryu Karate: Donald Bohan's Memorial Website: RonaldDuncan". Bohans-family.com. Retrieved 2016-08-18. "The Freeport News". freeport...
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