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Modern British playwriting : voices, documents, new interpretations. The 1960s.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury,
2013.
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| Colección: | Decades of modern British playwriting.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.