Book description
Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of
Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and
study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to 2009 in
six volumes. Each volume features a critical analysis and reevaluation
of the work of four key playwrights from that decade authored by a team
of experts, together with an extensive commentary on the period . The
1960s was a decade of seismic changes in British theatre as in society
at large. This important new study in Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern
British Playwriting series explores how theatre-makers responded to the
changes in society. Together with a thorough survey of the theatrical
activity of the decade it offers detailed reassessments of the work of
four of the leading playwrights. The 1960s volume provides in-depth
studies of the work of four of the major playwrights who came to
promience: Edward Bond (by Steve Nicholson), John Arden (Bill
McDonnell), Harold Pinter (Jamie Andrews) and Alan Ayckbourn (Frances
Babbage). It examines their work then, its legacy today, and how
critical consensus has changed over time. Steve Nicholson is Director
of Drama within the English Department at the University of Sheffield,
UK. Series editors: Richard Boon, Emeritus Professor of Drama, the
University of Hull, UK, and Philip Roberts, Emeritus Professor in the
School of English, University of Leeds, UK.
