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Twentieth century British drama
Paperback. English.
Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001
This title examines 20th-century British drama. The series explores the contextual study of texts & each book adopts an interactive approach & provides...
The changing language of modern English drama 1945-2005
Hardback. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Kate Dorney offers a fresh perspective on the history of post-war English theatre by examining the ways in which the practice and criticism of theatre...
The full room: an A-Z of contemporary playwriting
Hardback. English.
Published
London: Methuen, 2000
This work examines how the dramatic works of the 1990s have shaped the New British Theatre movement. The playwrights covered include Billy Roche, Sebastian...
Poetic drama
Paperback. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1989
A work which traces the repeated attempts in the 20th century to write poetic drama - plays with dialogue in formal verse and with other poetic qualities...
The Methuen Drama guide to contemporary Irish playwrights
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Methuen Drama, 2010
This is an authoritative single-volume guide to the work of 25 Irish playwrights from the 1960s to the present written by a team of 25 eminent scholars...
Contemporary British drama
eBook. English.
Published
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010
This book provides a critical assessment of dramatic literature since 1995, situating texts, companies and writers in a cultural, political and social...
English drama since 1940
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Longman, 2003
An introductory guide to the themes, styles, concerns and contexts of English drama from 1940 to the plays of the late 1990s
1956 and all that: the making of modern British drama
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Routledge, 1999
It is said that British Drama was lifted out of the doldrums by John Osborne's Look Back in Anger in 1956. But had the theatre been as ephemeral and effeminate...
British theatre since 1955: a reassessment
Hardback. English.
Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979
The rise and fall of the well-made play
Hardback. English.
Published
Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2014
First published in 1967, this title considers the idea of the 'well-made play' in the context of how and why it has been devalued and how far, in allowing...
