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100 1 $aRabey, David Ian,$d1958-$eauthor.
245 10 $aEnglish drama since 1940 /$cDavid Ian Rabey.
260 $aLondon :$bRoutledge, Taylor and Francis,$c2014.
300 $a1 online resource (265 pages)
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490 1 $aLongman Literature In English Series
588 0 $aPrint version record.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aCover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Editors'' Preface; Author''s Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: How Should We Live?; Political determinism: 'either/or'; Dramatic dayenglish and nightenglish: 'both/and'; 1 1940-56: Reconciliation and Dissociation; Patterning poetics; Absolute Hell and The Deep Blue Sea; John Whiting: learning how to die; 2 Out of 1956: A Rising Generation; John Osborne: just like a man; Arnold Wesker: melancholy optimism; Theatre Workshop: Littlewood and Delaney; Ann Jellicoe's The Sport of My Mad Mother.
505 8 $a3 Beckett and Pinter: Terminal Contractions of (In)ConsequenceSamuel Beckett: burning to be gone; Harold Pinter: the enemy within; 4 Out of the 1950s and 1960s: Whose Is the Kingdom?; Arden and D'Arcy: anarchy v. closure; Mercer: where the difference begins; Nichols and Wood: smile, boys, smile; Performing possession/possessing performance; 5 Bond: Blind Power; 6 Subversion and Conciliation: Comedy from the 1960s to the 1990s; From Cooper to Orton: curious rooms; Gray, Frayn, Leigh, Stoppard: irony in the soul; Ayckbourn and Bennett: blood and chocolate.
505 8 $aPeter Barnes v. the basilisk of authority7 Out of the 1970s and 1980s: Rage at a Blocked Age: Four Odysseys; Howard Brenton: perverse freedoms; David Hare: tragedies of manners; David Edgar: through a glass darkly; Stephen Poliakoff: beneath a rubber moon; 8 Melting the Boundaries: New Expressionism from the 1970s to the 1990s; AC/DC: dismantle thyself; David Rudkin: twilight of the gods; Steven Berkoff: dance of the screamers; Caryl Churchill: reshaping reality; Timberlake Wertenbaker: persistent questioning; The imagined place: recent Welsh drama; 9 Irish Drama: Twilights and Tigers.
505 8 $aThe lie of the landCeltic twilights; Paradoxical significance; Dancing in the ruins?; 10 From the 1980s to the 1990s: Trapped Enough to Belong; On the edge; Engendered rage; Cartwright: dying by instalments; 11 Barker: Appalling Enhancements; 12 A Blasted F£££ing Difference?: The 1990s and Beyond the Big Zeros; The terrible force of inconsequence; Coming closer; The mark of Kane: how should we die?; Epilogue: wordskill; Chronology; General Bibliographies; (i) Historical and cultural context, 1940-2001; (ii) Theatrical context of drama in the period; (iii) English drama 1940-2001.
505 8 $aIndividual AuthorsNotes on biography, works and criticism; Index; Longman Literature in English Series.
520 $aEnglish Drama Since 1940 considers the bids of successive post-war dramatists to find language and images of remorseless disclosure, appropriate to the public manifestation of sensed crisis and the interrogation of the ideal of renewal. This book introduces the period and its discourse whilst redefining them, to give proper consideration to developments of themes, styles, concerns and contexts from the 80s to the present. The book offers succinct and analytical introductions to the work of 60 dramatists, whilst arguing for (re)appraisal of many dates critical perspectives, in order to stimul.
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650 6 $aThéâtre anglais$y20e siècle$xHistoire et critique.
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