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Strategies of political theatre: post-War British playwrights
Michael Patterson-
Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page ix)
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Brief chronology, 1953-1989 (page x)
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Introduction (page 1)
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Part 1: Theory
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1 Strategies of political theatre: a theoretical overview (page 11)
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Part 2: Two model strategies
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2 The 'reflectionist' strategy: 'kitchen sink' realism in Arnold Wesker's Roots (1959) (page 27)
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3 The 'interventionist' strategy: poetic politics in John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959) (page 44)
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Part 3: The reflectionist strain
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4 The dialectics of comedy: Trevor Griffiths's Comedians (1975) (page 65)
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5 Appropriating middle-class comedy: Howard Barker's Stripwell (1975) (page 83)
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6 Staging the future: Howard Brenton's The Churchill Play (1974) (page 94)
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Part 4: The interventionist strain
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7 Agit-prop revisited: John McGrath's The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (1973) (page 109)
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8 Brecht revisited: David Hare's Fanshen (1975) (page 125)
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9 Rewriting Shakespeare: Edward Bond's Lear (1971) (page 138)
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10 The strategy of play: Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine (1979) (page 154)
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Conclusion (page 175)
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Notes (page 180)
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Select bibliography (page 202)
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Index (page 223)
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Published: c2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- 9780521277327 (paper)
- 9780521258555 (hardcover)
- 9780511096990 (ebook)