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Modern British Playwriting: The 60s-Voices, Documents, New Interpretations

by Steve Nicholson , Bill McDonnell , Frances Babbage
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781408129579
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: English Literature
  • Publisher: Methuen Drama
  • Publisher Imprint: MethuenDra
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 352
  • Original Price: GBP 27.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 386 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Drama

About the Book 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.

Andrews, Jamie: - Jamie Andrews is the Head of Culture and Learning at the British Library.

Babbage, Frances: - Frances Babbage is Reader in Theatre and Performance at the University of Sheffield, UK. She has published widely on performance, adaptation and rewriting and is the author of Re-Visioning Myth: Modern and Contemporary Drama by Women (Manchester University Press, 2011) and Augusto Boal (Routledge Performance Practitioners, 2004).

Boon, Richard: - Richard Boon is Emeritus Professor of Drama, the University of Hull, UK.

McDonnell, Bill: - Bill McDonnell is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has published on British political and activist theatres of the twentieth century and is the author of several studies, including Theatres of the Troubles: theatre, resistance and liberation in Ireland (UEP, 2008) and Social Impact in UK Theatre (Arts Council England, 2005). He contributed a chapter on John Arden for Modern British Playwriting: the 1960s, edited by Steve Nicholson (Methuen Drama 2012).

Nicholson, Steve: - Professor Steve Nicholson is a professor in Twentieth Century and Contemporary Theatre and Subject Director for Theatre within the School of English at the University of Sheffield, UK. Much of his work explores relationships between theatre, society and political contexts. He is also interested in contemporary playwrights and practitioners who challenge traditional conventions about character, narrative and performance.

Roberts, Philip: - Philip Roberts is Emeritus Professor in the School of English of the University of Leeds, UK, where until 2004 he was Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies and Director of the Workshop Theatre.

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