Strategies of political theatre : post-War British playwrights /
This volume provides a theoretical framework for some of the most important play writing in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century. Examining representative plays by Arnold Wesker, John Arden, Trevor Griffiths, Howard Barker, Howard Brenton, Edward Bond, David Hare, John McGrath and Car...
| Основен автор: | Patterson, Michael. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
℗♭2003.
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| Серия: |
Cambridge studies in modern theatre.
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Print version::
Strategies of political theatre. |
Съдържание:
- Strategies of political theatre : a theoretical overview
- 'Reflectionist' strategy : 'kitchen sink' realism in Arnold Wesker's Roots (1959)
- 'Interventionist' strategy : poetic politics in John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959)
- Dialectics of comedgy : Trevor Griffith's Comedians (1975)
- Appropriating middle-class comedy : Howard Barker's Stripwell
- Staging the future : Howard Breton's The Churchill Play (1974)
- Agit-prop revisited : John McGrath's The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil (1973)
- Brecht revisited : David Hare's Fanshen (1975)
- Rewriting Shakespeare : Edward Bond's Lear (1971)
- Stragegy of play : Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine (1979).