Strategies of political theatre : post-War British playwrights /
By: Patterson, Michael
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Series: Cambridge studies in modern theatre.Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003Description: xviii, 232 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780521277327 (pbk.); 9780521277327:.Subject(s): English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Politics and literature -- Great Britain | Theater -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Political plays, English -- History and criticismDDC classification: 822.91409358 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-222) and index.
Strategies of political theatre : a theoretical overview -- 'Reflectionist' strategy : 'kitchen sink' realism in Arnold Wesker's Roots (1959) -- 'Interventionist' strategy : poetic politics in John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959) -- Dialectics of comedgy : Trevor Griffith's Comedians (1975) -- Appropriating middle-class comedy : Howard Barker's Stripwell -- Staging the future : Howard Breton's The Churchill Play (1974) -- Agit-prop revisited : John McGrath's The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil (1973) -- Brecht revisited : David Hare's Fanshen (1975).
Rewriting Shakespeare : Edward Bond's Lear (1971) -- Stragegy of play : Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine (1979).
Providing a theoretical framework for some of the most important post-war playwriting in Britain, the author examines plays by Arden, Griffith & Brenton, among others, analysing their respective strategies for persuading audiences of the need for a radical restructuring of society.