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Modern British Playwriting: The 1950s - Voices, Documents, New Interpretations (Hardcover, New)
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Modern British Playwriting: The 1950s - Voices, Documents, New Interpretations (Hardcover, New)
Series: Decades of Modern British Playwriting
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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.
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