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Modern British Playwriting: The 1970s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations

Modern British Playwriting: The 1970s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations

Boon, Richard
Reinelt, Janelle
Megson, Chris

Hardcover

Series: Decades of Modern British Playwriting, Book 2

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ISBN10: 1408181320
ISBN13: 9781408181324
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Aug 1 2012
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

Essential for students of Theatre Studies, this series of six decadal volumes provides a critical survey and reassessment of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to the present. Each volume equips readers with an understanding of the context from which work emerged, a detailed overview of the range of theatrical activity and a close study of the work of four of the major playwrights by a team of leading scholars.

Chris Megson's comprehensive survey of the theatre of the 1970s examines the work of four playwrights who came to promience in the decade and whose work remains undiminished today: Caryl Churchill (by Paola Botham), David Hare (Chris Megson), Howard Brenton (Richard Boon) and David Edgar (Janelle Reinelt). It analyses their work then, its legacy today and provides a fresh assessment of their contribution to British theatre.

Interviews with the playwrights, with directors and with actors provides an invaluable collection of documents offering new perspectives on the work. Revisiting the decade from the perspective of the twenty-first century, Chris Megson provides an authoritative and stimulating reassessment of British playwriting in the 1970s.

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