Understanding Arnold Wesker
Author: Robert Wilcher
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13:
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Arnold Wesker
Author: Arnold Wesker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780815311782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA broad reference on London Jewish playwright Wesker (b. 1932) and his work, considering the politics in his plays, biographical aspects, historical perspectives, critical approaches, and the critical response. The 18 original essays discuss the failure and promise of socialism as personal contact in Roots, writing for radio in Yardsdale, the modernity of The Kitchen, women in his later plays, and other topics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Roots
Author: Arnold Wesker
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 1472531574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt’s 1958. Beatie Bryant has been to London and fallen in love with Ronnie, a young socialist. As she anxiously awaits his arrival to meet her family at their Norfolk farm, her head is swimming with new ideas. Ideas of a bolder, freer world which promise to clash with their rural way of life. Roots is the remarkable centrepiece of Wesker’s seminal post-war trilogy. It was first performed in 1959 at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, before transferring to the Royal Court. It is the second play in a trilogy comprising Chicken Soup with Barley and I’m Talking About Jerusalem. It went on to transfer to the Duke of York’s Theatre in the West End. A true classic, Roots is an affecting portrait of a young woman finding her voice at a time of unprecedented social change.
Understanding Iris Murdoch
Author: Cheryl Browning Bove
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780872498761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes Murdoch as preoccupied with love, art, & the possibility & difficulty of doing good & avoiding evil.
Arnold Wesker
Author: Graham Saunders
Publisher:
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ISBN-13: 9781789383645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderstanding Alan Bennett
Author: Peter Wolfe
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781570032806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the actor, director, playwright and lyricist, Alan Bennett. Peter Wolfe demonstrates that Alan Bennett's success in many spheres was no fluke, and his theatrical eminence has always been accompanied by awards and professional recognition. His play Single Spies won the Oliver Award as England's Best Comedy in 1989. The casts of his plays, starting with Forty Years On in 1968, have included such luminaries as Sir John Gielgud, Sir Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Alan Bates and Daniel Day Lewis. His screenwriting earned The Madness of King George a nomination for an Academy Award. This book seeks to illuminate the writer whose instinct for artistic choices has helped him to succeed on his own terms.
Understanding John Le Carré
Author: John L. Cobbs
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781570031687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Cobbs establishes that contemporary English novelist John le Carre's fiction transcends the genre of espionage, and that le Carre is preeminently a social commentator who writes novels of manners. Cobbs analyzes each of le Carre's novels and offers a biographical sketch, describing le Carre's often overlooked academic success and reputation as a once member of British Intelligence.
Understanding Graham Swift
Author: David Malcolm
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781570035159
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Malcolm discusses the novelist's use of major twentieth-century historical events to shape and deform the lives of his characters; his focus on the distortions and evasions that characterize the discussion of personal, local, and national histories; and his fascination with the complexities, sufferings, and joys that mark individual lives. Malcolm suggests that despite Swift's dark vision of human suffering, he tempers his writing with an intermittent focus on that which can redeem our failures, our losses, and our cruelties."--BOOK JACKET.
The Birth of Shylock and the Death of Zero Mostel
Author: Arnold Wesker
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderstanding Beryl Bainbridge
Author: Brett Josef Grubisic
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781570037566
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In this introduction to prolific British novelist Beryl Bainbridge, Brett Josef Grubisic provides a biographical sketch of the writer, discussion of her motivations and techniques, and a detailed survey of her fiction that places the works in the traditions of British black comedy, social novels, and historical fiction. In approaching her works, Grubisic maps Bainbridge's movement from social to historical novels, beginning with the comic historicism of Young Adolf and continuing to her most recent fiction, The Birthday Boys, Every Man for Himself, Master Georgie, and According to Queeney. Grubisic holds that in portraying historical events through a variety of narrative techniques or from oblique vantage points, Bainbridge's latest novels partially ally themselves with the style and ideological concerns of literary postmodernism while still recalling the defining view of hardship established in her youth."--BOOK JACKET.
