English Drama Since 1940
English Drama Since 1940

Author: David Ian Rabey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-13

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1317875389

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English Drama Since 1940 considers the bids of successive post-war dramatists to find language and images of remorseless disclosure, appropriate to the public manifestation of sensed crisis and the interrogation of the ideal of renewal. This book introduces the period and its discourse whilst redefining them, to give proper consideration to developments of themes, styles, concerns and contexts from the 80s to the present. The book offers succinct and analytical introductions to the work of 60 dramatists, whilst arguing for (re)appraisal of many dates critical perspectives, in order to stimulate further argument in the field.

British and Irish Drama since 1960
British and Irish Drama since 1960

Author: James Acheson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-24

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1349227625

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The fifteen essays in this collection, published here for the first time, survey the work of some of the major British and Irish dramatists since 1960. Included are four dramatists - Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Peter Shaffer and Peter Nichols - who began writing plays before 1960, and whose work since then has continued to develop interestingly. Most of the dramatists considered here, however, are those who have begun writing more recently, and who illustrate some of the distinctive characteristics of British and Irish drama of our time.

British Playwrights, 1956-1995
British Playwrights, 1956-1995

Author: William W. Demastes

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1996-10-23

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 1567507433

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The year 1956 marked a point when British drama and theater fell into the hands of a group of young playwrights who revolutionized the stage. During that time, playwrights such as Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter made the British theater as rich, varied, and vital as any national theater in history. This reference chronicles the history of British theater from 1956 to 1995 by providing detailed information about the playwrights of that period. Included are entries for some three dozen British playwrights active between 1956 and 1995. Entries are arranged alphabetically to facilitate use. Each entry supplies biographical information, the production history for particular plays, a survey of the playwright's critical reception, an assessment of the dramatist's work, and primary and secondary bibliographies. A selected, general bibliography at the end of the volume directs the reader to important sources of additional information about this period in theater history.

Contemporary British Drama, 1970–90
Contemporary British Drama, 1970–90

Author: Hersh Zeifman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1993-04-27

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1349108197

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This book focuses exclusively on the exciting and provocative plays produced in England in the last two decades. The primary aim of the collection is to celebrate the truly remarkable range of British drama since 1970, by examining the work of fourteen important and representative playwrights. This emphasis on range applies not only to the dramatists chosen for inclusion but to the critics as well - specifically to the diversity of critical methodology demonstrated in their essays.

American Novelists Since World War II.
American Novelists Since World War II.

Author: James Richard Giles

Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13:

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Contains biographical sketches of writers who either began writing novels after 1945 or have done their most important work since then.

Encyclopedia of British Humorists
Encyclopedia of British Humorists

Author: Steven H. Gale

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 690

ISBN-13: 9780824059903

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First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

John Osborne
John Osborne

Author: Patricia D. Denison

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1136546677

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For British playwright, John Osborne, there are no brave causes; only people who muddle through life, who hurt, and are often hurt in return. This study deals with Osborne's complete oeuvre and critically examines its form and technique; the function of the gaze; its construction of gender; and the relationship between Osborne's life and work. Gilleman has also traced the evolution of Osborne's reception by turning to critical reviews at the beginning of each chapter.

File On Frayn
File On Frayn

Author: Malcolm Page

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-05-29

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 1408152509

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"Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh" (Michael Billington, Guardian) Michael Frayn is a playwright, novelist, journalist and writer of screenplays. His most important plays included Copenhagen, Noises Off, Benefactors and Donkeys' Years. Writers-Files is an important series documenting the work of major dramatists of the last hundred years. Each volume contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer's plays, with a detailed performance history, excerpted reviews and a selection of the writers' own comments on their work. "Methuen are to be congratulated on launching this series...extremely useful to theatre professionals as well as to students and teachers of drama" (David Bradby, Speech and Drama)

A People's History of English and American Literature
A People's History of English and American Literature

Author: Eugene V. Moran

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9781590333037

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With special emphasis on literary merit, this book chronicles the literature of the great nations of Britain and America from their earliest origins to the twenty-first century.