Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama: 1880 to the Present (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

A COMPANION TO MODERNBRITISH AND I RISHDRAMA......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 13
List of Illustrations......Page 14
Notes on Contributors......Page 15
Introduction......Page 21
Part I Contexts......Page 25
1 Domestic and Imperial Politics in Britain and Ireland: \nThe Testimony of Irish Theatre......Page 27
2 Reinventing England......Page 42
3 Ibsen in the English Theatre in the Fin de Siècle......Page 55
4 New Woman Drama......Page 68
Part II Mapping New Ground, 1900–1939......Page 81
5 Shaw among the Artists......Page 83
6 Granville Barker and the Court Dramatists......Page 95
7 Gregory, Yeats and Ireland\'s Abbey Theatre......Page 107
8 Suffrage Theatre: Community Activism and Political Commitment......Page 119
9 Unlocking Synge Today......Page 130
10 Sean O\'Casey\'s Powerful Fireworks......Page 145
11 Auden and Eliot: Theatres of the Thirties......Page 158
Part III England, Class and Empire, 1939–1990......Page 171
12 Empire and Class in the Theatre of John Arden and Margaretta D\'Arcy......Page 173
13 When Was the Golden Age? Narratives of Loss and Decline: John Osborne, Arnold Wesker and Rodney Ackland......Page 184
14 A Commercial Success: Women Playwrights in the 1950s......Page 195
15 Home Thoughts from Abroad: Mustapha Matura......Page 208
16 The Remains of the British Empire: The Plays of Winsome Pinnock......Page 218
Part IV Comedy......Page 231
17 Wilde\'s Comedies......Page 233
18 Always Acting: Noël Coward and the Performing Self......Page 245
19 Beckett\'s Divine Comedy......Page 257
20 Form and Ethics in the Comedies of Brendan Behan......Page 267
21 Joe Orton: Anger, Artifice and Absurdity......Page 278
22 Alan Ayckbourn: Experiments in Comedy......Page 289
23 \'They Both Add up to Me\': The Logic of Tom Stoppard\'s Dialogic Comedy......Page 299
24 Stewart Parker\'s Comedy of Terrors......Page 309
Part V War and Terror......Page 319
25 A Wounded Stage: Drama and World War I......Page 321
26 Staging \'the Holocaust\' in England......Page 336
27 Troubling Perspectives: Northern Ireland, the \'Troubles\' and Drama......Page 349
28 On War: Charles Wood\'s Military Conscience......Page 361
29 Torture in the Plays of Harold Pinter......Page 378
30 Sarah Kane: From Terror to Trauma......Page 391
Part VI Theatre since 1968......Page 403
31 Theatre since 1968......Page 405
32 Lesbian and Gay Theatre: All Queer on the West End Front......Page 418
33 Edward Bond: Maker of Myths......Page 429
34 John McGrath and Popular Political Theatre......Page 439
35 David Hare and Political Playwriting: Between the Third Way and the Permanent Way......Page 449
36 Left in Front: David Edgar\'s Political Theatre......Page 461
37 Liz Lochhead: Writer and Re-Writer: Stories, Ancient and Modern......Page 474
38 \'Spirits that Have Become Mean and Broken\': Tom Murphy and the \'Famine\' of Modern Ireland......Page 486
39 Caryl Churchill: Feeling Global......Page 496
40 Howard Barker and the Theatre of Catastrophe......Page 508
41 Reading History in the Plays of Brian Friel......Page 519
42 Marina Carr: Violence and Destruction: Language, Space and Landscape......Page 529
43 Scrubbing up Nice? Tony Harrison\'s Stagings of the Past......Page 539
44 The Question of Multiculturalism: The Plays of Roy Williams......Page 550
45 Ed Thomas: Jazz Pictures in the Gaps of Language......Page 561
46 Theatre and Technology......Page 571
Index......Page 583