Modern British playwriting [electronic resource] . The 1960s : voices, documents, new interpretations / Steve Nicholson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicholson, Steve.

Series:

Decades of modern British playwriting.

Decades

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--20th century--History and criticism.

English drama.

Bond, Edward--Criticism and interpretation.

Bond, Edward.

Arden, John--Criticism and interpretation.

Arden, John.

Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008--Criticism and interpretation.

Pinter, Harold.

Ayckbourn, Alan, 1939---Criticism and interpretation.

Ayckbourn, Alan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Methuen Drama, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to 2009 in six volumes. Each volume features a critical analysis and reevaluation of the work of four key playwrights from that decade authored by a team of experts, together with an extensive commentary on the period . The 1960s was a decade of seismic changes in British theatre as in society at large. This important new study in Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series explor

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; General Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction to the 1960s; Domestic life; Society; Science, technology and industry; Culture; Media; Political events; 1 Theatre in the 1960s; 1960-64; Performance and politics; Cruelty and violence; Shakespeare; Staging reality; The age of satire; Theatres of war; Beyond words; Aunt Edna versus the RSC; 1965-69; Documentary theatre; Staging Vietnam; Race; The American avant-garde; The golden age; Waiting for paradise; Conclusion; 2 Introducing the Playwrights; Introduction to John Arden; Introduction to Edward Bond

Introduction to Harold PinterIntroduction to Alan Ayckbourn; 3 Playwrights and Plays; John Arden; Serjeant Musgrave's Dance; The Workhouse Donkey; Armstrong's Last Good Night; Britain's Brecht; Conclusion; Edward Bond; Saved; Early Morning; Lear; Conclusion; Harold Pinter; The Caretaker; Early audience response; or, 'A bloody pain in the neck'; The Homecoming; Pinter beyond Britain; or looking for Beckett; Censorship; Landscape and Silence; Afterword; Alan Ayckbourn; 1960-64: taking (first) steps; 1965-70: comedies of sex and class; Relatively Speaking

How the Other Half Loves and Family CirclesAfterword; 4 Documents; John Arden; Edward Bond; Harold Pinter; Afterword; John Arden; Edward Bond; Harold Pinter; Alan Ayckbourn; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; Notes on contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781408157114

140815711X

9781283853217

1283853213

9781408129623

1408129620

OCLC:

820029356