Contemporary British Drama, 1970-90: Essays from Modern Drama

Introduction; H.Zeifman - Pinter's Old Times: The Memory game; S.Martineau - Rehearsal as Critical Method: Pinter's Old Times; L.I.Eilenberg - Cinematic Fidelity and the Forms of Pinter's Betrayal; E.Brater - The Spectator in Drama/Drama in the Spectator: Peter Shaffer's Equus; U.Chaudhuri - On the Structure of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus; W.Huber & H.Zapf - The Political Spectrum of Edward Bond: From Rationalism to Rhapsody; C.Innes - Bond's Restoration; K.Worth - Edward Bond's Summer: 'a voice from the working class'; P.Roberts - The Serious Side of Alan Ayckbourn; M.Page - Makers of Real Shapes: Christopher Hampton and His Story-tellers; S.Black - The Emblematic Structure and Setting of David Storey's Plays; A.E.Quigley - After Magritte, After Carroll, After Wittgenstein: What Tom Stoppard's Tortoise Taught Us; K.Elam - The Optical Allusion: Perception and Form in Stoppard's Travesties; J.W.Cooke - Comedy of Ambush: Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing; H.Zeifman - The Unhappy Mean in Simon Gray's Otherwise Engaged; B.Nelson - Creativity and Commitment in Trevor Griffiths's Comedians; A.E.Quigley - Modest Proposals of Modern Socialists; R.Cohn - The Politics of Anxiety: Contemporary Socialist Theatre in England; C.W.E.Bigsby - Television Drama and the People's War: David Hare's Licking Hitler, Ian McEwan's The Imitation Game, and Trevor Griffiths's Country; R.Johnstone - De-realised Women: Performance and Identity in Churchill's Top Girls; J.Marohl - Retreating to the Future: Brenton in the Eighties; R.Boon - A Select Bibliography; C.Zimmerman - Contributors - Dates of Original Publication - Index