Bernard Kops Fantasist Londoncb

"This is the first book-length study on the Anglo-Jewish writer Bernard Kops, who became famous as part of the new wave of British drama with the production of his play The Hamlet of Stepney Green in 1958"--

List of contents

Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: The Writer's I
Chapter Two: The Role and Function of Family
Chapter Three: Identity Formation, Self-Discovery, and Aging
Chapter Four: Jewish Identity within British Culture
Chapter Five: Sex and Politics
Chapter Six: Issues of Mental Health
Chapter Seven: Kops on Kops: The Interviews
Appendix: More Radio Plays
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors

About the author

William Baker is distinguished university professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University and Visiting Professor at Zhejiang University, PRChina. The author or co-author of over 150 refereed articles and 31 books, he has written extensively on Pinter, Stoppard and Kops and other Anglo-Jewish writers including many contributions to The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. His other work includes books on George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, Jane Austen and William Shakespeare. He edits George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies and co-edits The Year's Work in English Studies.

Product details

• Authors: William Baker, Jeanette Roberts Shumaker
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2014
• EAN: 9781611476569
• ISBN: 978-1-61147-656-9
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies