Contemporary British Drama, 197090: Essays from Modern Drama [Hardcover]

This book focuses exclusively on the exciting and provocative plays produced in England in the last two decades. The primary aim of the collection is to celebrate the truly remarkable range of British drama since 1970, by examining the work of fourteen important and representative playwrights. This emphasis on range applies not only to the dramatists chosen for inclusion but to the critics as well - specifically to the diversity of critical methodology demonstrated in their essays.Introduction; H.Zeifman - Pinter's Old Times: The Memory game; S.Martineau - Rehearsal as Critical Method: Pinter's Old Times; L.I.Eilenberg - Cinematic Fidelity and the Forms of Pinter's Betrayal; E.Brater - The Spectator in Drama/Drama in the Spectator: Peter Shaffer's Equus; U.Chaudhuri - On the Structure of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus; W.Huber & H.Zapf - The Political Spectrum of Edward Bond: From Rationalism to Rhapsody; C.Innes - Bond's Restoration; K.Worth - Edward Bond's Summer: 'a voice from the working class'; P.Roberts - The Serious Side of Alan Ayckbourn; M.Page - Makers of Real Shapes: Christopher Hampton and His Story-tellers; S.Black - The Emblematic Structure and Setting of David Storey's Plays; A.E.Quigley - After Magritte, After Carroll, After Wittgenstein: What Tom Stoppard's Tortoise Taught Us; K.Elam - The Optical Allusion: Perception and Form in Stoppard's Travesties; J.W.Cooke - Comedy of Ambush: Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing; H.Zeifman - The Unhappy Mean in Simon Gray's Otherwise Engaged; B.Nelson - Creativity and Commitment in Trevor Griffiths's Comedians; A.E.Quigley - Modest Proposals of Modern Socialists; R.Cohn - The Politics of Anxiety: Contemporary Socialist Theatre in England; C.W.E.Bigsby - Television Drama and the People's War: David Hare's Licking Hitler, Ian McEwan's The Imitation Game, and Trevor Griffiths's Country; R.Johnstone - De-realised Women: Performance and Identity in Churchill's Top Girls; J.Marohl - Retreating to the Future: Brenton in the Eil#à