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Informationen zum Autor David Pattie is Associate Professor in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham, UK. He researches and publishes in a number of areas; popular music performance and culture, contemporary British and Scottish theatre, and the work of Samuel Beckett. He is the author of Rock Music in Performance (Bloomsbury, 2007), and the co-editor of the books Kraftwerk: Music Non Stop (Bloomsbury, 2011) and Brian Eno: Oblique Music (Bloomsbury, 2016), and The Velvet Underground (Bloomsbury, 2022). Luc Gilleman was professor of English at Smith College, Massachusetts, USA. Sarah Bay-Cheng is associate professor of theatre and director of graduate studies in the Department of Theatre & Dance, University at Buffalo, USA. Philip Roberts is Emeritus Professor in the School of English of the University of Leeds, UK, where until 2004 he was Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies and Director of the Workshop Theatre. Richard Boon is Emeritus Professor of Drama, the University of Hull, UK. Klappentext This series offers a critical study of the theatre produced in each decade, with an in-depth analysis of the work of 4 key playwrights from the era. In this volume they are: T.S. Eliot, Terence Rattigan, John Osborne and Arnold Wesker. Vorwort A critical study of the theatre produced in the 1950s with an in-depth analysis of the work of four key playwrights from the decade. Zusammenfassung Part of the Decades of Modern British Playwriting series, the volume provides a critical survey of the theatre produced in the 1950s together with detailed studies by a team of experts of the work of T. S. Eliot, Terence Rattigan, John Osborne and Arnold Wesker. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by the General Editors Richard Boon (Emeritus, University of Hull) and Philip Roberts (Emeritus, University of Leeds)Introduction: Living in the 1950sTheatre in the 1950sIntroducing the Playwrights: T. S. Eliot; Terence Rattigan; John Osborne; Arnold WeskerT. S. Eliot (Sarah Bay-Chen, University at Buffalo - State University of New York, USA)Terence Rattigan (David Pattie, University of Chester, UK)John Osborne (Luc Gilleman, Smith College, Northampton, USA)Arnold Wesker (John Bull, University of Reading, UK)DocumentsAfterwordSelect BibliographyReferencesNotesIndex...
