A companion to modern British and Irish drama, 1880-2005
By: edited by Mary Luckhurst
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9781444332049
Notes: Originally published: 2006.
Table of contents: title: Domestic and imperial politics in Britain and Ireland : the testimony of Irish theatre / Victor Merriman; title: Reinventing England / Declan Kiberd; title: Ibsen in the English theatre in the Fin de Siècle / Katherine Newey; title: New woman drama / Sally Ledger; title: Shaw among the artists / Jan McDonald; title: Granville Barker and the court dramatists / Cary M. Mazer; title: Gregory, Yeats and Ireland's Abbey Theatre / Mary Trotter; title: Suffrage theatre : community activism and political commitment / Susan Carlson; title: Unlocking Synge today / Christopher Murray; title: Sean O'Casey's powerful fireworks / Jean Chothia; title: Auden and Eliot : theatres of the thirties / Robin Grove; title: Empire and class in the theatre of John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy / Mary Brewer; title: When was the Golden Age? Narratives of loss and decline : John Osborne, Arnold Wesker and Rodney Ackland / Stephen Lacey; title: A commercial success : women playwrights in the 1950s / Susan Bennett; title: Home thoughts from abroad : Mustapha Matura / D. Keith Peacock; title: The remains of the British Empire : the plays of Winsome Pinnock / Gabriele Griffin; title: Wilde's comedies / Richard Allen Cave; title: Always acting : Noël Coward and the performing self / Frances Gray; title: Beckett's divine comedy / Katharine Worth; title: Form and ethics in the comedies of Brendan Behan / John Brannigan; title: Joe Orton : anger, artifice and absurdity / David Higgins; title: Alan Ayckbourn : experiments in comedy / Alexander Leggatt; title: They both add up to me : the logic of Tom Stoppard's dialogic comedy / Paul Delaney; title: Stewart Parker's comedy of terrors / Anthony Roche; title: A wounded stage : drama and World War I / Mary Luckhurst; title: Staging the Holocaust in England / John Lennard; title: Troubling perspectives : Northern Ireland, the troubles and drama / Helen Lojek; title: On war : Charles Wood's military conscience / Dawn Fowler and John Lennard; title: Torture in the plays of Harold Pinter / Mary Luckhurst; title: Sarah Kane : from terror to trauma / Steve Waters; title: Theatre since 1968 / David Pattie; title: Lesbian and gay theatre : all queer on the West End front / John Deeney; title: Edward Bond : maker of myths / Michael Patterson; title: John McGrath and popular political theatre / Maria DiCenzo; title: David Hare and political playwriting : between the third way and the permanent way / John Deeney; title: Left in front : David Edgar's political theatre / John Bull; title: Liz Lochhead : writer and re-writer : stories, ancient and modern / Jan McDonald; title: Spirits that have become mean and broken : Tom Murphy and the famine of modern Ireland / Shaun Richards; title: Caryl Churchill : feeling global / Elin Diamond; title: Howard Barker and the theatre of catastrophe / Chris Megson; title: Reading history in the plays of Brian Friel / Lionel Pilkington; title: Marina Carr : violence and destruction : language, space and landscape / Cathy Leeney; title: Scrubbing up nice? Tony Harrison's stagings of the past / Richard Rowland; title: The question of multiculturalism : the plays of Roy Williams / D. Keith Peacock; title: Ed Thomas : jazz pictures in the gaps of language / David Ian Rabey; title: Theatre and technology / Andy Lavender.