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About this book
The year 1956 marked a point when British drama and theater fell into the hands of a group of young playwrights who revolutionized the stage. During that time, playwrights such as Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter made the British theater as rich, varied, and vital as any national theater in history. This reference chronicles the history of British theater from 1956 to 1995 by providing detailed information about the playwrights of that period. Included are entries for some three dozen British playwrights active between 1956 and 1995. Entries are arranged alphabetically to facilitate use. Each entry supplies biographical information, the production history for particular plays, a survey of the playwright's critical reception, an assessment of the dramatist's work, and primary and secondary bibliographies. A selected, general bibliography at the end of the volume directs the reader to important sources of additional information about this period in theater history.
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Table of contents
- Preface William W. Demastes
- John Arden (1930β ) Michael L. Counts
- Alan Ayckbourn (1939β ) James Fisher
- Howard Barker (1946β ) David Ian Rabey
- Peter Barnes (1931β ) Stephen Weeks
- Samuel Beckett (1906β1989) William Hutchings
- Edward Bond (1934β ) William J. Free
- Howard Brenton (1942β ) John E. OβConnor
- Caryl Churchill (1938β ) Amelia Howe Kritzer
- Shelagh Delaney (1939β ) Colette Lindroth
- David Edgar (1948β ) Art Borreca
- Michael Frayn (1933β ) Karen C. Blansfield
- Pam Gems (1925β ) Sarah J. Rudolph
- Simon Gray (1936β ) Tony J. Stafford
- Trevor Griffiths (1935β ) Stanton B. Garner, Jr.
- Christopher Hampton (1946β ) William J. Free
- David Hare (1947β ) Judy Lee Oliva
- Ann Jellicoe (1927β ) Janice Oliver
- Bernard Kops (1926β ) William Baker
- Liz Lochhead (1947β ) Ilona Koren-Deutsch
- John McGrath (1935β ) Malcolm Page
- Peter Nichols (1927β ) Kim L. Jones-Owen
- Joe Orton (1933β1967) Don S. Lawson
- John Osborne (1929β1994) Malcolm Page
- Louise Page (1955β ) Kurt Eisen
- Harold Pinter (1930β ) Stephen H. Gale
- Stephen Poliakoff (1952β ) William W. Demastes
- Willy Russell (1947β ) Chris Jones
- Peter Shaffer (1926β ) C. J. Gianakaris
- Tom Stoppard (1937β ) Richard Corballis
- David Storey (1933β ) William Hutchings
- C.P. Taylor (1929β1981) William W. Demastes
- Timberlake Wertenbaker (1944?β ) Carla J. McDonough
- Arnold Wesker (1932β ) Robert Wilcher
- Hugh Whitemore (1936β ) Walter H. Placzek
- John Whiting (1917β1963) Thomas T. Apple
- Snoo Wilson (1948β ) Dawn Dietrich
- Selected Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Titles
- About the Editor and Contributors