Strategies of Political Theatre: Post-War British Playwrights

Michael Patterson

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511486197

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GENERAL STUDIES

Acheson, James. British and Irish Drama Since 1960, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992

Adamov, Arthur. ‘Theatre, money and politics’, Theatre Quarterly 1 (4), October–December 1971, 83–8

Anderson, Michael. Anger and Detachment: A Study of Arden, Osborne and Pinter, London, 1976

Ansorge, Peter. Disrupting the Spectacle: Five Years of Experimental and Fringe Theatre in Britain, London: Pitman, 1975

Ansorge, Peter ‘Underground explorations: no. 1, portable playwrights, David Hare, Howard Brenton, Trevor Griffiths, Snoo Wilson’, Plays and Players 19 (5), February 1972, 14–23

Armstrong, William A. (ed.). Experimental Drama, London: Bell, 1963

Auslander, Philip. ‘Toward a concept of the political in postmodern theatre’, Theatre Journal, 39 (1), March 1987, 20–34

Barker, Clive. ‘From fringe to alternative theatre’, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 26 (1), 1978, 48–62

Barker, Clive ‘The politicisation of British theatre’, Englisch Amerikanische Studien 2 (2), June 1980, 267–78

Barnes, Philip. A Companion to Post-War British Theatre, Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1986

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Berger, John. Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969

Berny, K. A., and N. G. Templeton. Contemporary British Dramatists, London: St James Press, 1994

Betsko, Kathleen, and Rachel Koenig (eds.). Interviews with Contemporary Women Playwrights, New York: Beech Tree Books, 1987

Bigsby, Christopher. ‘The politics of anxiety: contemporary socialist theatre in England’, Modern Drama 24 (4), December 1981, 393–403

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Bloch, Ernst, et al. Aesthetics and Politics, London: Verso, 1980

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Boon, Richard, and Jane Plastow (eds.). Politics, Culture and Performance, Cambridge University Press, 1998

Bradby, David; Louis James; Bernard Sharratt (eds.). Performance and Politics in Popular Drama: Aspects of Popular Entertainment in Theatre, Film and Television 1800–1976, Cambridge University Press, 1980

Bradby, David, and John McCormick. People's Theatre, London: Croom Helm, 1978

Brater, Enoch (ed.). Feminine Focus: The New Women Playwrights, Oxford University Press, 1989

Brown, John Russell. Theatre Language: A Study of Arden, Osborne, Pinter and Wesker, London, 1972

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Bull, John. New British Political Dramatists: Howard Brenton, David Hare, Trevor Griffiths and David Edgar, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1984

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Chambers, Colin. ‘Socialist theatre and the ghetto mentality’, Marxism Today 22 (8), August 1978, 245–50

Chambers, Colin, and Mike Prior. Playwrights' Progress: Patterns of Postwar British Drama, Oxford: Amber Lane Press, 1987

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Craig, Sandy (ed.). Dreams and Deconstructions: Alternative Theatre in Britain, Ambergate: Amber Lane Press, 1980

Davies, Andrew. ‘Political theatre in Britain since the 1960s’, Other Theatres: the Development of Alternative and Experimental Theatre in Britain, London: Macmillan, 1987, 162–74

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Edgar, David. The Second Time as Farce: Reflections on the Drama of Mean Times, London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1988

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Edgar, David ‘Socialist theatre and the bourgeois author’, Workers and Writers, ed. Wilfried van der Will, Birmingham: Department of German, Birmingham University, 1975

Edgar, David ‘Political theatre’, Socialist Review, April–May 1978

Edgar, David ‘Ten years of political theatre, 1968–78’, Theatre Quarterly 8 (32), 1979, 25–33; reprinted in Edgar, The Second Time as Farce

Edgar, David ‘Towards a theatre of dynamic ambiguities’ [interview with Clive Barker and Simon Trussler], Theatre Quarterly 9 (33), Spring 1979, 3–23

Elsom, John. Post-War British Theatre, London: Routledge, 1976

Enkemann, Jürgen. ‘Politisches Alternativtheater in Grossbritannien’, Englisch Amerikanische Studien 2 (4), December 1980, 495–507

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Hall, Stuart. ‘Beyond naturalism pure’, Encore 8 (6), November– December 1961, 12–19

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Hewison, Robert. In Anger: Culture in the Cold War, London: Methuen, 1988

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Höhne, Horst (ed.). Political Developments on the British Stage in the Sixties and Seventies, Rostock: Wilhelm-Pieck-Universität, 1977

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Hunt, Albert. ‘Theatre of violence’, New Society, 4 November 1976, 261–2

Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama 1890–1990, Cambridge University Press, 1992

Itzin, Catherine. Stages in the Revolution, London: Methuen, 1980

Itzin, Catherine ‘Shakespeare's sisters: women in theatre in Britain in the seventies’, Englisch Amerikanische Studien 2 (4), December 1980, 507–19

Kennedy, Andrew. Six Dramatists in Search of a Language, Cambridge University Press, 1975

Kerensky, Oleg. The New British Drama: Fourteen Playwrights Since Osborne and Pinter, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1977

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King, Kimball. Twenty Modern British Playwrights 1956 to 1976: A Bibliography, New York: Garland, 1977

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Kitchin, Laurence. Drama in the Sixties: Form and Interpretations, London: Faber & Faber, 1966

Klotz, Günther. Alternativen im britischen Drama der Gegenwart, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1978

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Klotz, Günther ‘Alternatives in recent British drama’, Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 25 (2), 1977, 152–61

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Lacey, Stephen. Theatre, Culture and Politics: British Theatre as Political Practice 1956–61, Birmingham University Press, 1985

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Lambert, J. W. Drama in Britain 1964–1973, London: Longman, 1974

Lambley, Dorrian. ‘In search of a radical discourse for theatre’, New Theatre Quarterly 8 (29), February 1992, 34–47

Lloyd Evans, Gareth and Barbara (eds.). Plays in Review 1956–1980: British Drama and the Critics, London: Batsford, 1985

Marowitz, Charles; Tom Milne; and Owen Hale (eds.). Encore Reader: New Theatre Voices of the Fifties and Sixties, London: Methuen, 1965

Marowitz, Charles, and Simon Trussler (eds.). Theatre at Work: Playwrights and Productions in the Modern British Theatre, London: Methuen, 1967

Merchant, Paul. ‘The theatre poems of Bertolt Brecht, Edward Bond and Howard Brenton’, Theatre Quarterly 9, Summer 1979, 49–51

‘NTQ Symposium. Theatre in Thatcher's Britain: organising the opposition’ [Simon Trussler, Vera Gottlieb, Colin Chambers, Clive Barker, John McGrath, Trevor Griffiths et al.], New Theatre Quarterly 5 (18), May 1989, 113–23

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Rabey, David Ian. British and Irish Political Drama in the Twentieth Century, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986

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Shank, Theodore. ‘Political theatre in England’, Performing Arts Journal 2 (3), Winter 1978, 48–62

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Stoll, Karl-Heinz. The New British Drama: A Bibliography with Particular Reference to Arden, Bond, Osborne, Pinter, Wesker, Bern: Lang, 1975

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Szanto, George H. Theater and Propaganda, Austin: University of Texas, 1978

Taylor, John Russell. Anger and After: A Guide to the New British Drama, 2nd edn, London: Methuen, 1969

Taylor, John Russell The Second Wave: British Drama for the Seventies, London: Methuen, 1970

Tempera, Mariangela. ‘Il rapporto autore/spettatore nel teatro di memoria colletiva: Peter Nichols, Arnold Wesker, Caryl Churchill’, Quaderni di Filologia Germanica 3, 1984, 267–79

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‘TQ symposium. Playwriting for the seventies: old theatres, new audiences, and the politics of revolution’ [John Arden, Caryl Churchill, David Edgar, Arnold Wesker, et al.], Theatre Quarterly 6 (24), Winter 1976–77, 35–72

Trussler, Simon. ‘Alternative theatre – for what?’, Theatre Quarterly 5 (19), September–November 1975, 11–14

Trussler, Simon ‘British neo-naturalism’, Drama Review 13, Winter 1968, 130–6

Trussler, Simon (ed.). New Theatre Voices of the Seventies: Sixteen Interviews from Theatre Quarterly 1970–1980, London: Methuen, 1981

Tschudin, Marcus. A Writer's Theatre: George Devine and the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre, Bern: Lang, 1972

Tynan, Kenneth. A View of the English Stage 1944–1965, London: Methuen, 1984

Van Erven, Eugène. Radical People's Theatre, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988

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Wager, Walter (ed.). The Playwrights Speak, London: Longmans, 1969

Wandor, Michelene. Carry On, Understudies: Theatre and Sexual Politics, London: Routledge, 1986

Wandor, Michelene Look Back in Gender: Sexuality and the Family in Post-War British Drama, London: Methuen, 1987

Wandor, Michelene Drama Today: a Critical Guide to British Drama 1970–1990, London: Longman, 1993

Wandor, Michelene ‘Sexual politics and the strategy of socialist theatre’, Theatre Quarterly 9 (36), 1980, 28–30

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Weintraub, Stanley (ed.). British Dramatists since World War Ⅱ, Dictionary of Literary Biography 13, Detroit: Gale, 1982, 2 vols

Weise, Wolf-Dietrich. Die “Neuen englischen Dramatiker” in ihrem Verhältnis zu Brecht, Bad Homburg: Gehlen, 1969

Williams, Raymond. Drama from Ibsen to Brecht, London: Chatto & Windus, 1968

Williams, Raymond Marxism and Literature, Oxford University Press, 1977

Worth, Katharine. Revolutions in Modern English Drama, London: Bell, 1973

Wu, Duncan. Six Contemporary Dramatists: Bennett, Potter, Gray, Brenton, Hare, Ayckbourn, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994

Zeifman, Hersh, and Cynthia Zimmerman (eds.). Contemporary British Drama 1970–90: Essays from ‘Modern Drama’, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993

INDIVIDUAL PLAYWRIGHTS

John Arden (1930–)

Primary literature

Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, London: Methuen, 1960; reprinted in Plays One, London: Methuen, 1977

To Present the Pretence: Essays on the Theatre and Its Public, London: Methuen, 1977

[With Margaretta D'Arcy] Awkward Corners: Essays, Papers, Fragments, London: Methuen, 1988

‘Building the play: an interview’, Encore 8 (4), July–August 1961, 22–41

‘Delusions of grandeur’, Twentieth Century 169, February 1961, 200–6

‘Getting time for adjustments’, Interview with John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy by Paul Hadfield and Linda [= Lynda] Henderson, Writing Ulster, Coleraine: University of Ulster 2/3, 1991–2, 88–9

‘On comedy: John Arden talks to Albert Hunt’, Encore 12 (5), September–October 1965, 13–19

‘The reps and new plays: a writer's viewpoint’, New Theatre Magazine 1 (2), January 1960, 23–6

‘Telling a true tale’, Encore 7 (3), May–June 1960, 22–6

‘Who's for a revolution? Two interviews with John Arden’ [with Walter Wager and Simon Trussler], Tulane Drama Review 11 (2) (t34), Winter 1966, 41–53

Secondary literature

Adler, Thomas P. ‘Religious ritual in John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance’, Modern Drama 16 (2), September 1973, 163–6

Blindheim, Joan Tindale. ‘John Arden's use of the stage’, Modern Drama 11 (3), December 1968, 306–16

Clinton, Craig. ‘John Arden: the promise unfulfilled’, Modern Drama, 21 (1), 1978, 47–58

Day, P. W. ‘Individual and society in the early plays of John Arden’, Modern Drama 18, 1975, 239–49

Gilman, Richard. ‘Arden's unsteady ground’, Tulane Drama Review 11 (2) (t34), Winter 1966, 54–62

Gray, Frances. John Arden, London: Macmillan, 1982

Hayman, Ronald. John Arden, London: Heinemann, 1968

Hunt, Albert. Arden: A Study of his Plays, London: Methuen, 1974

Hunt, Albert ‘Arden's stagecraft’, Encore 12 (5), September–October 1965, 9–12

Hunt, Albert ‘Serjeant Musgrave and the critics’, Encore 7 (1), January–February 1960, 26–8

Jordan, Robert. ‘Serjeant Musgrave's problem’, Modern Drama 13, 1970, 54–62

Leeming, Glenda. John Arden, London: Longman, 1974

McMillan, Grant E. ‘The bargee in Serjeant Musgrave's Dance’, Educational Theatre Journal 25, 1973, 500–3

Mills, J. ‘Love and anarchy in Serjeant Musgrave's Dance’, Drama Survey 7, Winter 1968–9, 45–51

Milne, Tom. ‘A study of John Arden's plays’, New Left Review, January–February 1961, 21–3

O'Connell, Mary B. ‘Ritual elements in Serjeant Musgrave's Dance’, Modern Drama 13, 1971, 356–9

Page, Malcolm. John Arden, Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984

Page, Malcolm (ed.). Arden on File, London: Methuen, 1985

Trussler, Simon. John Arden, New York: Columbia University Press, 1973

Trussler, Simon ‘Arden – an introduction’, Encore 12 (5), September–October 1965, 4–8

Wike, Jonathan (ed.). John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy: A Casebook, London: Garland, 1994

Howard Barker (1946–)

Primary literature

Stripwell, 1975, published with Claw, London: Calder, 1977

Arguments for a Theatre, London: Calder, 1989

‘49 asides for a tragic theatre’, The Guardian, 10 February 1986, 11

‘Energy – and the small discovery of dignity’ [interview with Malcolm Hay and Simon Trussler], Theatre Quarterly 10 (40), Autumn– Winter 1981, 3–14

‘Oppression, resistance and the writer's testament’ [interview with Finlay Donesky], Theatre Quarterly 2 (8), November 1986, 336–44

‘The redemptive power of desire’, The Times, 6 February 1986

Secondary literature

Gambit: Howard Barker Issue, 11 (41), 1984

Grant, Steve. ‘Barker's bite’, Plays and Players 23 (3), December 1975, 36–9

Klotz, Günther. ‘Howard Barker: paradigm of postmodernism’, New Theatre Quarterly 25, 1991

Rabey, David Ian. Howard Barker: Politics and Desire. An Expository Study of His Drama and Poetry, 1969–1987, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989

Thomas, Alan. ‘Howard Barker: modern allegorist’, Modern Drama 35 (3), 1992, 433–43

Thomson, Peter. ‘Humanism and catastrophe: a note on Howard Barker's polarities’, Studies in Theatre Production 10, 1994, 39

Tomlin, Liz. ‘Building a Barker character: a methodology from The Last Supper’, Studies in Theatre Production 12, 1995, 47–53

Edward Bond (1934–)

Primary literature

Lear. 1971, first publ., London: Methuen, 1972; reprinted in Plays: Two, London: Methuen, 1978; publ. with Commentary and Notes by Patricia Hern, London: Methuen Student Editions, 1983

The Worlds, with The Activists Papers, London: Methuen, 1980

‘Creating what is normal’ [interview with Tony Coult], Plays and Players 23 (3), 1975, 9–13

‘A discussion’ [with Harold Hobson et al.], Gambit 5 (17), 1970, 5–38

‘Drama and the dialectics of violence: Edward Bond interviewed by the editors’ [Roger Hudson, Catherine Itzin and Simon Trussler], Theatre Quarterly 2 (5), January–March 1972, 4–14

‘Dramatist in a schizophrenic society: Edward Bond on the context of the ideas in his plays’ [interview with W. Bachem and R. Tabbert], anglistik & englischunterricht 7, 1979, 121–32

‘Edward Bond in conversation’ [interview with D. Roper], Gambit 9 (36), 1980, 35–45

‘The first circle’ [interview with G. Loney], Performing Arts Journal 1, 1976, 37–45

‘From rationalism to rhapsody’ [interview with Christopher Innes], Canadian Theatre Review 23, 1979, 108–13

‘An interview by Giles Gordon’, Transatlantic Review 22, Autumn 1966, 7–15

‘On Brecht: a letter to Peter Holland’, Theatre Quarterly 8 (30), Summer 1978, 34–5

Secondary literature

Arnold, Arthur. ‘Lines of development in Bond's plays’, Theatre Quarterly 2 (5), 1972, 15–19

Buhmann, Detlef. Edward Bond: Theater zwischen Psyche und Politik, Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1988

Bulman, James C. ‘Bond, Shakespeare and the Absurd’, Modern Drama 29 (1), March 1986, 63

Coult, Tony. The Plays of Edward Bond, London: Eyre Methuen, 1978

Dark, Gregory. ‘Production Casebook no. 5: Edward Bond's Lear at the Royal Court’, Theatre Quarterly 2 (5), January–March 1972, 20–31

Donahue, Delia. Edward Bond: A Study of His Plays, Rome: Bulzoni editore, 1979

Gross, Konrad. ‘Darstellungsprinzipien im Drama Edward Bonds’, Die Neueren Sprachen 22, 1973, 313–24

Hay, Malcolm, and Philip Roberts. Bond: A Study of His Plays, London: Methuen, 1980

Hay, Malcolm, and Philip Roberts Edward Bond: A Companion to His Plays, London: TQ Publications, 1978

Hirst, David L. Edward Bond, London: Macmillan, 1985

Holland, Peter. ‘Brecht, Bond, Gaskill and the practice of political theatre’, Theatre Quarterly 8 (30), Summer 1978, 24–34

Iden, Peter. Edward Bond, Velber: Friedrich Verlag, 1973

Jones, Daniel K. ‘Bond's “Rational Theatre”’, Theatre Journal 32 (4), 505–17

Klotz, Günther. ‘Erbezitat und zeitlose Gewalt: zu Edward Bonds Lear’, Weimarer Beiträge 19 (10), 1973, 54–65

Lappin, Lou. The Art and Politics of Edward Bond, New York: Lang, 1987

Oppel, Horst, and Sandra Christenson. Edward Bond's Lear and Shakespeare's King Lear, Abhandlungen der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse, 1974 (2), Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, 1974

Peter, John. ‘Edward Bond: violence and poetry’, Drama 117, Autumn 1975, 28–32

Peter, John ‘Political realism crushed by paranoia’, The Sunday Times, 11 March 1990

Restivo, Giuseppina. La nuova scena inglese: Edward Bond, Turin: Giulio Einaudi, 1977

Roberts, Philip. File on Bond, London: Methuen, 1985

Roberts, Philip. ‘Political metaphors: the plays of Edward Bond’, New Edinburgh Review, 30 August 1975, 34–5

Roberts, Philip ‘“Making the two worlds one”: the plays of Edward Bond’, Critical Quarterly 21 (4), 1979, 75–84

Scharine, Richard. The Plays of Edward Bond, Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1976

Spencer, Jenny S. Dramatic Strategies in the Plays of Edward Bond, Cambridge University Press, 1992

Stratmann, Gerd. ‘Edward Bond, “Lear”’, Anglo-amerikanische Shakespeare-Bearbeitungen des 20. Jahrhunderts, ed. Horst Priessnitz, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1980

Taylor, John Russell. ‘British dramatists: the new arrivals no. 5: Edward Bond’, Plays and Players 17, August 1970, 16–18

Tener, Robert L. ‘Edward Bond's dialectic: irony and dramatic metaphors’, Modern Drama 25 (2), 1982, 423–34

Trussler, Simon. Edward Bond, London: Longman, 1976

Wheeler, David. ‘Curing cultural madness: Edward Bond's Lear and The Woman’, Theatre Annual 46, 1993, 13–27

Wolfensperger, Peter. Edward Bond: Dialektik des Weltbildes und dramatische Gestaltung, Bern: Francke Verlag, 1976

Zapf, Hubert. ‘Two concepts of society in drama: Bertolt Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan and Edward Bond's Lear’, Modern Drama 31 (3), September 1988, 357

Howard Brenton (1942–)

Primary literature

The Churchill Play, London: Methuen, 1974, revised version of 1978 publ. in Plays One, London: Methuen, 1986

Hot Irons, London: Nick Hern Books, 1995

‘Howard Brenton: an introduction’ [interview with Malcolm Hay and Philip Roberts], Performing Arts Journal 3 (3), Winter 1979, 134–41

Interview [with Hugh Herbert], The Guardian, 9 May 1974

‘On Iranian Nights’, Tariq Ali and Howard Brenton, Independent Magazine 36, 13 May 1989

‘Petrol bombs through the proscenium arch’ [interview with Catherine Itzin and Simon Trussler], Theatre Quarterly, 5 (17), March–May 1975, 4–20

‘The red theatre under the bed’ [interview with Tony Mitchell], New Theatre Quarterly 3 (11), August 1987, 195–201

‘Taking liberties’, Marxism Today, December 1988, 35–7

‘Writing for democratic laughter’, Drama 157 (3), 1985, 9–11

Secondary literature

Boon, Richard. Brenton: the Playwright, London: Methuen, 1991

Boon, Richard. ‘Politics and terror in the plays of Howard Brenton’, Terrorism and Modern Drama, ed. John Orr and Dragan Klaić, Edinburgh University Press, 1990, 138–50

Mitchell, Tony. File on Brenton, London: Methuen, 1988

Sotto-Morettini, Donna. ‘Disrupting the Spectacle: Brenton's Magnificence’, Theatre Journal 38 (1), 1986, 82–96

Caryl Churchill (1938–)

Primary literature

Cloud Nine, 1979, London: Pluto Press, 1979, revised edn 1983

‘The common imagination and the individual voice’ [interview with Geraldine Cousin], New Theatre Quarterly 4 (13), February 1988, 3–16

Interview with Steve Gooch, Plays and Players, January 1973, 40–41

‘Not ordinary, not safe’, The Twentieth Century, November 1960, 443–51

Secondary literature

Aston, Elaine. Caryl Churchill, 2nd edn, Plymouth: Northcote House, 2001

Case, Sue-Ellen and Jeanie, K. Forte. ‘From formalism to feminism’, Theater 16 (2), Spring, 1985, 62–5

Cousin, Geraldine. Churchill: the Playwright, London: Methuen, 1989

Diamond, Elin. ‘(In)visible bodies in Churchill's theatre’, Theatre Journal 40 (2), 1988, 188–204

Diamond, Elin ‘Refusing the romanticism of identity: narrative interventions in Churchill, Benmussa, Duras’, Theatre Journal 37 (3), October 1985, 273–86

Fitzsimmons, Linda. File on Churchill, London: Methuen, 1989

Fitzsimmons, Linda ‘I won't turn back for you or anyone: Caryl Churchill's socialist– feminist theatre’, Essays in Theatre 6 (1), November 1987, 19–29

Howe Kritzer, Amelia. The Plays of Caryl Churchill: Theatre of Empowerment, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991

Klett, Renate and Stumm, Reinhardt. ‘Autorenportrait: Caryl Churchill’, Theater heute, January 1984, 19–27

Mitchell, Tony. ‘Churchill's mad forest: a polyphonic study of South Eastern Europe’, Modern Drama 36 (4), 499–511

Randall, Phyllis (ed.). Caryl Churchill: A Casebook, New York: Garland, 1988

Stone, Laurie. ‘Caryl Churchill: making room at the top’, The Village Voice 28 (9), 1 March 1983, 80–1

Thurman, Judith. ‘Caryl Churchill: the playwright who makes you laugh about orgasm, racism, class struggle, homophobia, woman-hating, the British Empire, and the irrepressible strangeness of the human heart’, Ms, May 1982, 52–7

Wandor, Michelene. ‘Free collective bargaining’, Time Out, September 1976, 10–11

Griffiths, Trevor (1935–)

Primary literature

Comedians, London: Faber & Faber, 1976, revised version 1979

‘Countering consent’ [interview with John Wyver], in: David Edgar et al., Ah ! Mischief: The Writer and Television, ed. Frank Pike, London: Faber & Faber, 1982, 30–40

‘Current concerns’ [interview with Peter Ansorge and David Hare], Plays and Players, July 1974, 18–22

Interview, The Leveller, November 1976, 12–13

Interview with Pat Silburn, Gambit 8 (29), 1976, 30–6

‘Politics and populist culture’ [interview with Alison Summers], Canadian Theatre Review, Summer 1980, 22–9

‘Towards the mountain top’ [interview with Robert Cushman], Plays and Players 21, August 1974, 14–19

‘Transforming the husk of capitalism’ [interview with Catherine Itzin and Simon Trussler], Theatre Quarterly 6 (22), Summer 1976, 25–46

Secondary literature

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Post-War British Playwrights

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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments
pp ix-ix

Brief chronology, 1953–1989
pp x-xviii

Introduction
pp 1-8

Part 1 - Theory
pp 9-10

1 - Strategies of political theatre: a theoretical overview
pp 11-24

Part 2 - Two model strategies
pp 25-26

2 - The ‘reflectionist’ strategy: ‘kitchen sink’ realism in Arnold Wesker's Roots (1959)
pp 27-43

3 - The ‘interventionist’ strategy: poetic politics in John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959)
pp 44-62

Part 3 - The reflectionist strain
pp 63-64

4 - The dialectics of comedy: Trevor Griffiths's Comedians (1975)
pp 65-82

5 - Appropriating middle-class comedy: Howard Barker's Stripwell (1975)
pp 83-93

6 - Staging the future: Howard Brenton's The Churchill Play (1974)
pp 94-106

Part 4 - The interventionist strain
pp 107-108

7 - Agit-prop revisited: John McGrath's The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (1973)
pp 109-124

8 - Brecht revisited: David Hare's Fanshen (1975)
pp 125-137

9 - Rewriting Shakespeare: Edward Bond's Lear (1971)
pp 138-153

10 - The strategy of play: Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine (1979)
pp 154-174

Conclusion
pp 175-179

Notes
pp 180-201

Select bibliography
pp 202-222

Index
pp 223-232

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