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Early years

Barnes was born in Bow, London but was raised on the east coast, where his parents worked in an amusement arcade and later owned a couple of cafes. His upbringing in an English coastal resort probably helps explain the carnivalesque nature of his work. Barnes was educated at Marling School in Stroud, Gloucestershire and performed his national service with the Royal Air Force. After this he spent a small period working for London County Council. Bow is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. ... Marling School (centre number 57037) is a grammar school for boys located in Stroud in Gloucestershire, England, next to Stroud High School. ... Stroud is a town in the county of Gloucestershire, England. ... National Service was the name given to the system of military conscription employed in the United Kingdom (although excluding Northern Ireland) between 1949 and 1960. ... The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the UK Armed Forces. ... The County of London, shown within a map of Englands 1890 counties London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London from 1889 until 1965, when it was replaced by the Greater London Council. ...

Bored with his job, Barnes took a correspondence course in theology. It was at this time that he began to visit the British Museum reading room, which he used as an office on a daily basis. During this period he worked as a film critic, story editor, and a screenwriter. He achieved fame in 1968 with his baroque comedy The Ruling Class, which debuted at the Nottingham Playhouse. The play was notorious for its anti-naturalistic approach, unusual in theatre at the time. Critic Harry Hobson deemed it to be one of the best first plays of its generation. Following a successful three-month run in the West End, Barnes adapted the play for the 1972 film of the same name, which featured a highly acclaimed performance by Peter O'Toole. An old-fashioned form of distance learning, a correspondence course is a course in which the student studies at home, receiving his/her work by mail and sending it back to the instructor in the same fashion. ... Theology is reasoned discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason). It also refers to the study of other religious topics. ... The domed ceiling of the Reading Room is particularly noted. ... Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint In arts, the Baroque (or baroque) is both a period and the style that dominated it. ... Nottingham is a city located in Nottinghamshire, in the East Midlands of England. ... This article is about the theatrical movement. ... Theatre is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts. ... West End is the name of some places in the world, including: The West End of London, England West End Theatre, is where many of Londons major theatres are located and premier cinema screenings take place. ...

Mature works

Following his initial success Barnes wrote a series of plays offering apocalyptic visions of some of the most important moments of history:

• Leonardo's Last Supper (1969) portrayed Leonardo da Vinci being prematurely declared dead, and his subsequent "resurrection" in a filthy charnel-house.
• The Bewitched (1974), which he produced with the RSC, showed the Spanish state attempting to produce an heir for Philip IV, who Barnes portrayed as impotent and an imbecile.
• Laughter! (1978) was his most controversial work, a double-bill that jumped from the reign of Ivan the Terrible to a satire based on the tedious bureaucracy required to sustain Auschwitz.
• Red Noses (1985), was perhaps his greatest play. It depicted a sprightly priest, originally played by Anthony Sher, who travelled around the plague-affected villages of 14th century France with a band of fools, known as God's Zanies, offering holy assistance. It was for this play that Barnes won his Olivier award.

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Later life

In his later years Barnes turned his attention more in the direction of films, radio, and television. His screenplay for Elizabeth von Arnim's Enchanted April earned him a nomination for the best adapted screenplay Oscar in 1992. He lost out to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's treatment of Howards End. He also wrote several mini-series for U.S. television, including Arabian Nights and Noah's Ark. For BBC Radio 4 he produced a series of monologues entitled Barnes's People, for which he attracted a large number of well known actors: Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Alec Guinness, Peggy Ashcroft, Judi Dench, and Ian McKellen. Elizabeth von Arnim (August 31, 1866 - February 9, 1941) was a British novelist and, through marriage, a member of the German nobility. ... Enchanted April is a film, based on the 1922 novel, The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim. ... The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (born May 7, 1927) is an Academy Award winning screenwriter, best known as the writer for Merchant Ivory films. ... Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster, first published in 1910, which tells the story of class struggle in turn-of-the-century England. ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Laurence Olivier, as photographed in 1939 by Carl Van Vechten Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM, KBE (May 22, 1907 – July 11, 1989) was an English actor and director, esteemed by many as the greatest actor of the 20th century. ... John Gielgud as photographed in 1936 by Carl Van Vechten Sir Arthur John Gielgud OM CH (April 14, 1904–May 21, 2000) was an English theatre and film actor, regarded by many as one of the greatest of his time. ... Alec Guinness Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE, KBE (April 2, 1914–August 5, 2000) was an English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation. ... Dame Peggy Ashcroft (December 22, 1907–June 14, 1991) was an English actress. ... Judi Dench as M in GoldenEye Judith Olivia Dench, better known as Judi Dench, CH, DBE (born on December 9, 1934 in York) is a renowned British stage, film and television actress. ... Sir Ian McKellen. ...

Barnes did carry on writing his historical comedies throughout the 1990s. These include Sunsets and Glories (1990), Dreaming (1999), and Jubilee (2001). // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but otherwise retaining the same mindset. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

Barnes's second wife, Christie, gave birth to his first daughter in 2000 when he was 69. Barnes, who never received much mainstream media attention for his plays, briefly became a tabloid obsession in 2002 when his wife gave birth again, this time to triplets. This article is about the year 2000. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Identical Triplet Sisters A multiple birth results when more than one human baby is born from a single pregnancy. ...

The last play that Barnes completed was Babies, which is based on his experiences as an elderly father. It is currently being adapted for British TV.

Barnes died in July 2004 of a stroke. 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December See also: July 2004 in sports Deaths in July • 31 David B. Haight • 29 Francis Crick • 29 Nafisa Joseph • 23 Joe Cahill • 23 Mehmood • 23 Illinois Jacquet • 23 Carlos Paredes • 22 Sacha Distel • 21 Jerry Goldsmith • 21... A stroke or cerebrovascular accident (CVA) occurs when the blood supply to a part of the brain is suddenly interrupted by occlusion (an ischemic stroke- approximately 90%of strokes) or by hemorrhage (a hemorrhagic stroke - approximately 10% of strokes). ...