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Modern British Playwriting: The 1970s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations 0 Edition
Author(s): Chris Megson (Author), Richard Boon (Series Editor, Contributor), Philip Roberts (Series Editor), Janelle Reinelt (Contributor), Paola Botham (Contributor)
- Publisher: Methuen Drama
- Publication Date: July 15, 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 312 pages
- ISBN-10: 1408129388
- ISBN-13: 9781408129388
Book Description
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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About the Author
Richard Boon is Emeritus Professor of Drama, the University of Hull, UK.
Dr. Paola Botham is Lecturer in Drama at Birmingham City University, UK. She has published several articles and book chapters on modern and contemporary political theatre, both in Britain and Chile, her country of origin, including 'The Twenty-First Century History Play', in
Twenty-First Century Drama, edited by Siân Adiseshiah and Louise LePage (2016) and 'Caryl Churchill', in Modern British Playwriting: The 1970s, edited by Chris Megson (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2012).Philip Roberts
is Emeritus Professor in the School of English of the University of Leeds, UK, where until 2004 he was Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies and Director of the Workshop Theatre.
