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Arnold Wesker : fragments and visions /

New collection redefines Wesker's place within theatre culture and questions the canonical boundaries associated with his work. Re-evaluating his legacy with new archival material, it explores his eclectic aesthetic range as well as his unerring concern for the human condition: a lasting '...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Etienne, Anne, Saunders, Graham
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Intellect Books Ltd, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Front Cover -- Half Title -- Frontispiece -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Part 1 Early Visions -- 1 Radical Chic? Centre 42, the Roundhouse and How Culture Countered Wesker in the 1960s -- Wesker's 1960s: Cultural and Political Context -- Roots and knots -- Roundhouse: The rise and fall -- Friends (and foes and funds) -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 2 Introducing Mr Harold Wesker -- Theatrical contemporaries -- Bridges, pauses and silences -- Dramatists of conviction -- Jewish dramatists -- Notes -- References -- 3 Roots: A Political Poem 
505 8 |a 4 The Enigma That Is Pip: A Character under Construction in Wesker's Chips with Everything -- The Conscripts -- Never trust the author? -- Notes -- References -- 5 Wesker's Flawed Diamond: Their Very Own and Golden City -- 'It does work' -- Antecedents and influences -- 'Patchwork' politics -- 'Poet [of] committed theatre' -- 'So much better than Serjeant Musgrave, darling!' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part 2 Unifying Fragments -- 6 'Let Battle Commence!': The Wesker Controversies -- 'Critic as Censor': Wesker versus reviewers -- 'One of us is mad': Wesker versus directors 
505 8 |a 'However admirable they may be': Wesker versus other playwrights -- 'Stand up and be counted': Wesker and global politics -- Conclusion: 'Perhaps I don't play the game' -- Notes -- References -- 7 Representing Jewishness and Antisemitism in Arnold Wesker's Work: Shylock, Badenheim 1939 and Blood Libel -- Shylock -- Badenheim 1939 -- Blood Libel -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8 Wesker's French Connections -- From Racines to Souvenirs fantômes -- Enter: Les metteurs-en-scène -- Crrritique! -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 9 Wesker the Visual Artist - 'Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life!' 
505 8 |a How I met Arnold Wesker -- Artistic collaborations -- A visual artist -- 10 A Charming Rogue: Wesker's Relationship with Women -- and with Himself -- Letters and liaisons -- Women and one-woman plays -- Annie Wobbler (1983) -- Whatever Happened to Betty Lemon? (1986) -- Yardsale (1987) -- Letter to a Daughter (1998) -- Director/playwright/player -- Forerunner -- Notes -- References -- 11 The Idea of Community in the Plays of Arnold Wesker from The Kitchen to Beorhtel's Hill -- Positive and negative versions of community in The Trilogy -- Attempts to construct communities 
505 8 |a Reconnecting with the past -- Lessons of history -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover 
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