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Modern British playwriting. The 1960s : voices, documents, new interpretations / Steve Nicholson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nicholson, Steve.
- Series:
- Decades of modern British playwriting
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ayckbourn, Alan, 1939-.
- Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008.
- Arden, John.
- Bond, Edward.
- English drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Bond, Edward--Criticism and interpretation.
- Arden, John--Criticism and interpretation.
- Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008--Criticism and interpretation.
- Pinter, Harold.
- Ayckbourn, Alan, 1939---Criticism and interpretation.
- Ayckbourn, Alan.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 304 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Methuen Drama, 2012.
- Summary:
- This title provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in the 1960s. It features a critical analysis and reevaluation of the work of four key playwrights authored by a team of experts, together with an extensive commentary on the period.
- Contents:
- 1 Theatre in the 1960s 29
- 1960-64 31
- Performance and politics 31
- Cruelty and violence 34
- Shakespeare 36
- Staging reality 38
- The age of satire 41
- Theatres of war 43
- Beyond words 49
- Aunt Edna versus the RSC 54
- 1965-69 58
- Documentary theatre 62
- Staging Vietnam 64
- Race 67
- The American avant-garde 72
- The golden age 74
- Waiting for paradise 79
- Conclusion 82
- 2 Introducing the Playwrights 85
- Introduction to John Arden / Bill McDonnell McDonnell, Bill 85
- Introduction to Edward Bond 91
- Introduction to Harold Pinter 97
- Introduction to Alan Ayckboum 102
- 3 Playwrights and Plays 108
- John Arden / Bill McDonnell McDonnell, Bill 108
- Serjeant Musgrave's Dance 110
- The Workhouse Donkey 119
- Armstrong's Last Good Night 126
- Britain's Brecht 134
- Conclusion 134
- Edward Bond 136
- Saved 139
- Early Morning 147
- Lear 154
- Conclusion 160
- Harold Pinter / Jamie Andrews Andrews, Jamie 161
- The Caretaker 163
- Early audience response; or, A bloody pain in the neck' 168
- The Homecoming 171
- Pinter beyond Britain; or looking for Beckett 175
- Censorship 178
- Landscape and Silence 181
- Afterword 187
- Alan Ayckbourn / Frances Babbage Babbage, Frances 190
- 1960-64: taking (first) steps 192
- 1965-70: comedies of sex and class 196
- Relatively Speaking 198
- How the Other Half Loves and Family Circles 205
- Afterword 214
- 4 Documents 216
- John Arden 216
- Edward Bond 224
- Harold Pinter 233.
- ISBN:
- 9781408181980
- 1408181983
- 9781408129579
- 1408129574
- OCLC:
- 797978441
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