| Modern British Playwriting: The 1950's: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations Contributor(s): Pattie, David (Author), Bull, John (Contribution by), Bay-Cheng, Sarah (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1408181975 ISBN-13: 9781408181973 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $133.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Drama - Performing Arts | Theater - General - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 822.914 |
| Series: Decades of Modern British Playwriting |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.3" W x 8.6" (0.90 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 work of four key playwrights from that decade authored by a team of experts, together with an extensive commentary on the period . Modern British Playwriting: The 1950s provides an authoritative and stimulating reassessment of the theatre of the decade together with a detailed study of the work of T.S Eliot (by Sarah Bay-Cheng), Terence Rattigan (David Pattie), John Osborne (Luc Gilleman) and Arnold Wesker (John Bull). The volume sets the context by providing a chronological survey of the 1950s, a period when Britain was changing rapidly and the very fabric of an apparently stable society seemed to be under threat. It explores the crisis in the theatrical climate and activity in the first part of the decade and the shift as the theatre began to document the unease in society, before documenting the early life of the four principal playwrights studied in the volume. Four scholars provide detailed examinations of the playwrights' work during the decade, combining an analysis of their plays with a study of other material such as early play drafts, interviews and the critical receptions of the time. An Afterword reviews what the writers went on to do and provides a summary evaluation of their contribution to British theatre from the perspective of the twenty-first century. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bull, John: - John Bull is Emeritus Professor of Film and Theatre at the University of Reading, UK, and Professor of Drama at the University of Lincoln, UK. His many publications include Stage Right: Crisis and Recovery in British Contemporary Mainstream Theatre (1994). Recently, he was Associate Editor for Modern Drama on the New Oxford Companion to English Literature, and editor of the three volume series, British and Irish Playwrights Since World War II.Pattie, David: - David Pattie is Professor in Drama in the Department of Performing Arts at the University of Chester, where he also teaches on the MA in Popular Music. He is the author of Rock Music in Performance (2007) and The Complete Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett (2001).Bull, John: - John Bull is Emeritus Professor of Film and Theatre at the University of Reading, UK, and Professor of Drama at the University of Lincoln, UK. His many publications include Stage Right: Crisis and Recovery in British Contemporary Mainstream Theatre (1994). Recently, he was Associate Editor for Modern Drama on the New Oxford Companion to English Literature, and editor of the three volume series, British and Irish Playwrights Since World War II.Roberts, Philip: - Philip Roberts is Emeritus Professor in the School of English of the University of Leeds, UK, where until 2004 he was Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies and Director of the Workshop Theatre. |