A companion to modern British and Irish drama, 1880-2005

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Wiley-Blackwell
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Table of Contents

Domestic and imperial politics in Britain and Ireland : the testimony of Irish theatre / Victor Merriman
Reinventing England / Declan Kiberd
Ibsen in the English theatre in the Fin de Siècle / Katherine Newey
New woman drama / Sally Ledger
Shaw among the artists / Jan McDonald
Granville Barker and the court dramatists / Cary M. Mazer
Gregory, Yeats and Ireland's Abbey Theatre / Mary Trotter
Suffrage theatre : community activism and political commitment / Susan Carlson
Unlocking Synge today / Christopher Murray
Sean O'Casey's powerful fireworks / Jean Chothia
Auden and Eliot : theatres of the thirties / Robin Grove
Empire and class in the theatre of John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy / Mary Brewer
When was the Golden Age? Narratives of loss and decline : John Osborne, Arnold Wesker and Rodney Ackland / Stephen Lacey
A commercial success : women playwrights in the 1950s / Susan Bennett
Home thoughts from abroad : Mustapha Matura / D. Keith Peacock
The remains of the British Empire : the plays of Winsome Pinnock / Gabriele Griffin
Wilde's comedies / Richard Allen Cave
Always acting : Noël Coward and the performing self / Frances Gray
Beckett's divine comedy / Katharine Worth
Form and ethics in the comedies of Brendan Behan / John Brannigan
Joe Orton : anger, artifice and absurdity / David Higgins
Alan Ayckbourn : experiments in comedy / Alexander Leggatt
They both add up to me : the logic of Tom Stoppard's dialogic comedy / Paul Delaney
Stewart Parker's comedy of terrors / Anthony Roche
A wounded stage : drama and World War I / Mary Luckhurst
Staging the Holocaust in England / John Lennard
Troubling perspectives : Northern Ireland, the troubles and drama / Helen Lojek
On war : Charles Wood's military conscience / Dawn Fowler and John Lennard
Torture in the plays of Harold Pinter / Mary Luckhurst
Sarah Kane : from terror to trauma / Steve Waters
Theatre since 1968 / David Pattie
Lesbian and gay theatre : all queer on the West End front / John Deeney
Edward Bond : maker of myths / Michael Patterson
John McGrath and popular political theatre / Maria DiCenzo
David Hare and political playwriting : between the third way and the permanent way / John Deeney
Left in front : David Edgar's political theatre / John Bull
Liz Lochhead : writer and re-writer : stories, ancient and modern / Jan McDonald
Spirits that have become mean and broken : Tom Murphy and the famine of modern Ireland / Shaun Richards
Caryl Churchill : feeling global / Elin Diamond
Howard Barker and the theatre of catastrophe / Chris Megson
Reading history in the plays of Brian Friel / Lionel Pilkington
Marina Carr : violence and destruction : language, space and landscape / Cathy Leeney
Scrubbing up nice? Tony Harrison's stagings of the past / Richard Rowland
The question of multiculturalism : the plays of Roy Williams / D. Keith Peacock
Ed Thomas : jazz pictures in the gaps of language / David Ian Rabey
Theatre and technology / Andy Lavender.

Edition Notes

Originally published: 2006.

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Oxford, Malden, MA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
822.9109
Library of Congress
PR736 .C575 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 584 p. :
Number of pages
584

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24529163M
ISBN 10
144433204X
ISBN 13
9781444332049
LCCN
2010502274
OCLC/WorldCat
461276310

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