Strategies of Political Theatre: Post-War British Playwrights

ISBN: 9780521277327 出版年：2003 页码：252 Michael Patterson Cambridge University Press

Acknowledgements Brief chronology, 1953-1989 Introduction Part I. Theory: 1. Strategies of political theatre: a theoretical overview Part II. Two Model Strategies: 2. The 'reflectionist' strategy: 'kitchen sink' realism in Arnold Wesker's Roots (1959) 3. The 'interventionist' strategy: poetic politics in John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959) Part III. The Reflectionist Strain: 4. The dialectics of comedy: Trevor Griffiths's Comedians (1975) 5. Appropriating middle-class comedy: Howard Barker's Stripwell (1975) 6. Staging the future: Howard Brenton's The Churchill Play (1974) Part IV. The Interventionist Strain: 7. Agit-prop revisited: John McGrath's The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil (1973) 8. Brecht revisited: David Hare's Fanshen (1975) 9. Rewriting Shakespeare: Edward Bond's Lear (1971) 10. The strategy of play: Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine (1979) Conclusion Notes Select bibliography Index.