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Strategies of political theatre, post-War British playwrights, Michael Patterson

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Strategies of political theatre, post-War British playwrights, Michael Patterson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-222) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Strategies of political theatre

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Michael Patterson

Series statement

Cambridge studies in modern theatre

Sub title

post-War British playwrights

Table Of Contents

kitchen sink realism in Arnold Wesker's Roots - poetic politics in John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance - dialectics of comedy : Trevor Griffiths's Comedians - appropriating middle-class comedy : Howard Barker's Stripwell - staging the future : Howard Brenton's The Churchill Play - agit-prop revisited : John McGrath's The Cheviot, the stag and the black, black oil - Brecht revisited ; David Hare's Fanshen - rewriting Shakespeare : Edward Bond's Lear - the strategy play : Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine

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