This unique volume examines the evolution of British historical
drama from the birth of modern British drama with John Osborne's
Look Back in Anger in 1956 to the establishment of the right-wing
government of Margaret Thatcher during the early 1980s. The book
illustrates how the ruling group within a society establishes a
cultural hegemony by which it perpetuates its values as society's
norms. Radical Stages demonstrates how historical drama within the
period increasingly was employed as a weapon in an assault upon
this cultural hegemony. First defining historical drama, Peacock
differentiates the historical drama after 1956 from its
predecessors as representing a shift from concern with individual
psychology to an emphasis upon the socioeconomic context in which
personality is formed. The first stage of this development, to
1968, was marked by a populist concern with ordinary people and by
an absence of specific political propaganda. Following the defeat
of student revolutionary movements in 1968, the gradual change in
left-wing political inclination from anarchism to Marxism was
treated in historical settings by such dramatists as Howard
Brenton, Trevor Griffiths, Edward Bond, and David Edgar. Radical
Stages analyzes these movements as reflected in drama and also
considers the place of women in the revolutionary movements of the
1960s and in the British theatre and historical drama of the
period. The final chapter speculates on the future of British
historical drama in the wake of the fall of both the Thatcher
government and communist governments in Eastern Europe.
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