Research Catalog

Title

Modern British playwriting. The 1960s : voices, documents, new interpretations / Steve Nicholson.

Author

Nicholson, Steve

Publication

London : Methuen Drama, 2012.

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Description

xi, 304 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

This title provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in the 1960s. It features a critical analysis and reevaluation of the work of four key playwrights authored by a team of experts, together with an extensive commentary on the period.

Series Statement

Decades of modern British playwriting

Uniform Title

Decades of modern British playwriting.

Alternative Title

1960s : voices, documents, new interpretations

Subject

• Arden, John > Criticism and interpretation
• Ayckbourn, Alan, 1939- > Criticism and interpretation
• Bond, Edward > Criticism and interpretation
• English drama > 20th century > History and criticism
• Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008 > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-293) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1 Theatre in the 1960s 29 -- 1960-64 31 -- Performance and politics 31 -- Cruelty and violence 34 -- Shakespeare 36 -- Staging reality 38 -- The age of satire 41 -- Theatres of war 43 -- Beyond words 49 -- Aunt Edna versus the RSC 54 -- 1965-69 58 -- Documentary theatre 62 -- Staging Vietnam 64 -- Race 67 -- The American avant-garde 72 -- The golden age 74 -- Waiting for paradise 79 -- Conclusion 82 -- 2 Introducing the Playwrights 85 -- Introduction to John Arden / Bill McDonnell McDonnell, Bill 85 -- Introduction to Edward Bond 91 -- Introduction to Harold Pinter 97 -- Introduction to Alan Ayckboum 102 -- 3 Playwrights and Plays 108 -- John Arden / Bill McDonnell McDonnell, Bill 108 -- Serjeant Musgrave's Dance 110 -- The Workhouse Donkey 119 -- Armstrong's Last Good Night 126 -- Britain's Brecht 134 -- Conclusion 134 -- Edward Bond 136 -- Saved 139 -- Early Morning 147 -- Lear 154 -- Conclusion 160 -- Harold Pinter / Jamie Andrews Andrews, Jamie 161 -- The Caretaker 163 -- Early audience response; or, A bloody pain in the neck' 168 -- The Homecoming 171 -- Pinter beyond Britain; or looking for Beckett 175 -- Censorship 178 -- Landscape and Silence 181 -- Afterword 187 -- Alan Ayckbourn / Frances Babbage Babbage, Frances

ISBN

• 9781408181980 (hbk.)
• 1408181983 (hbk.)
• 9781408129579 (pbk.)
• 1408129574 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library