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How do writers work? The differing habits of seven great authors
are examined in this collection. Writers often meditate on what
physical situations they need to do the work in hand. A room of
their own, bills, bed, procrastination, regular meals, Benzedrine
and beer, office routines, walking and riding, even prison, can be
machines that make them write. Trollope got 2,000 words done every
morning, watch on the table. Clare composed en pleine air, jotting
on his hat rim. Wesley's hymns came to him on horseback. The Bronte
sisters paced round adrawing-room table. Donne was dismally
prompted to write by nappies. Johnson needed the printer's devil
knocking at his door. On a grand scale, city planners try to entice
the creative classes into a creative area: while at alocal level,
readers have a magical sense that putting themselves into the
bodily position of a writer may allow them to join in her planning
and plotting. The essays in this volume examine the working habits
of seven greatauthors, from 1600 to today: Jonson, Milton, the
Bronte sisters, Trollope, Oliphant, and Auden. There are also
interviews on the creative environment with the Poet Laureate of
Great Britain, the British Library's Head of Modern Literary
Manuscripts, the Director of the Hay Festival, research fellows at
Stratford and the Globe, and a poet-web-blogger. CONTRIBUTORS: STAN
SMITH, ELISABETH JAY, N. JOHN HALL, STEVIE DAVIS, PETER C. HERMAN,
FARAH KARIM-COOPER, KATE RUMBOLD, MICHELLE O'CALLAGHAN, ADAM SMYTH,
ANDREW MOTION, JAMIE ANDREWS, ROBERT SHEPPARD, PETER FLORENCE
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 . The 1960s was a decade of
seismic changes in British theatre as in society at large. This
important new study in Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British
Playwriting series explores how theatre-makers responded to the
changes in society. Together with a thorough survey of the
theatrical activity of the decade it offers detailed reassessments
of the work of four of the leading playwrights. The 1960s volume
provides in-depth studies of the work of four of the major
playwrights who came to prominence: Edward Bond (by Steve
Nicholson), John Arden (Bill McDonnell), Harold Pinter (Jamie
Andrews) and Alan Ayckbourn (Frances Babbage). It examines their
work then, its legacy today, and how critical consensus has changed
over time.
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 . The 1960s was a decade of
seismic changes in British theatre as in society at large. This
important new study in Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British
Playwriting series explores how theatre-makers responded to the
changes in society. Together with a thorough survey of the
theatrical activity of the decade it offers detailed reassessments
of the work of four of the leading playwrights. The 1960s volume
provides in-depth studies of the work of four of the major
playwrights who came to prominence: Edward Bond (by Steve
Nicholson), John Arden (Bill McDonnell), Harold Pinter (Jamie
Andrews) and Alan Ayckbourn (Frances Babbage). It examines their
work then, its legacy today, and how critical consensus has changed
over time.
Two never-before-published works. The Devil Inside Him, written in
1950, is a melodrama with a poetic edge about a Welsh boarding
house, lorded over by a self-righteous, religious bigot of a
father. Personal Enemy, written with Anthony Creighton, is set in
America at the height of the McCarthy communist witch-hunts.
'Like Joe Simpson, Andrew has discovered a latent talent for
writing that only a mountaineering epic seems to have allowed him
to uncover. And like Touching the Void, Life and Limb is
brilliantly written and utterly un-put-down-able. If ever a tale
evokes the phrase "life affirming" then this is it.' -On the Edge
magazine; 'His courage, determination and sense of humour shine
through the words of this remarkable book...Life and Limb is a
genuinely life-enhancing read.' -Scottish Mountaineer; Jamie
Andrew's survival and rescue after five nights trapped by a
ferocious storm in 1999 has passed into Alpine legend. It was a
miracle that he survived; but Jamie had to come to terms not only
with the death of his close friend, Jamie Fisher, who died beside
him - but also with the loss of all his limbs to frostbite. Since
the accident, Jamie has struggled painfully and successfully to
overcome his disabilities; not only has he learnt to walk (and run)
on his prosthetic legs, but also to ski, snowboard, paraglide - and
even take up his beloved mountaineering again.
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