| Strategies of Political Theatre: Post-War British Playwrights Contributor(s): Patterson, Michael (Author), Michael, Patterson (Author), Bradby, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521258553 ISBN-13: 9780521258555 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2003 Annotation: Michael Patterson analyzes a group of twentieth century British playwrights' respective strategies for persuading audiences of the need for radical restructuring of society. He examines plays by Arnold Wesker, John Arden, Trevor Griffith, Howard Barker, Howard Brenton, Edward Bond, David Hare, John McGrath and Caryl Churchill. Each chapter is devoted to an exploration of the engagement of individual playwrights with left-wing political theatre, including a detailed analysis of one of their major plays. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Drama | European - General |
| Dewey: 822.914 |
| LCCN: 2002191058 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.19 lbs) 252 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Patterson, Michael: - Michael Patterson is Professor of Theatre at De Montfort University, Leicester. He is a major British authority on German Theatre, especially twentieth-century political theatre in Germany. He is author of German Theatre Today; The Revolution in German Theatre 1900 1933; Peter Stein; The First German Theatre; German Theatre: A Bibliography and is editor of Georg Buchner: Collected Plays. He has published numerous articles on German Naturalist theatre, Reinhardt, Pirandello, Brecht, concentration camp theatre, Kroetz and East German theatre. |