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Zusatztext This makes for a highly informative compendium of biographies and critiques, and a coherent and timely statement on the formidable and continuing strength of British playwriting. Informationen zum Autor Middeke Martin (born 24 April 1963 in Paderborn) is a German literary scholar and Chair of English Literature at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Dr Peter Paul Schnierer is the Chair of English Literature at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Aleks Sierz is the theatre critic of Tribune and a freelance theatre reviewer. He is a lecturer in modern British theatre whose seminal study, In-Yer-Face Theatre , defined a new generation of writers and their work. In 2006 Methuen Drama published his guide, The Theatre of Martin Crimp , which was followed up by 2012's Modern British Playwriting: the 1990s . Sierz's journalism has featured in the Sunday Times , the Daily Telegraph and the Independent . He is a widely read, highly regarded critic of modern British theatre. Aleks Sierz FRSA is Visiting Professor at Rose Bruford College, London, UK, and author of In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today (Faber, 2001), John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (Continuum, 2008), Rewriting the Nation: British Theatre Today (Methuen Drama, 2011) and Modern British Playwriting: The 1990s (Methuen Drama 2012). He also works as a journalist, broadcaster, lecturer and theatre critic. Klappentext An authoritative guide to the work of 25 playwrights. Vorwort This is an authoritative single-volume guide to the work of twenty-five British playwrights from the 1980s to the present written by an international team of twenty-five eminent scholars. It is the perfect companion for students of Theatre Studies and English Literature. Zusammenfassung This is an authoritative single-volume guide to the work of twenty-five British playwrights from the 1980s to the present written by an international team of twenty-five eminent scholars. It is the perfect companion for students of Theatre Studies and English Literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTION1. TERRY JOHNSON (Stephen Lacey - Cardiff, UK) 2. SARAH DANIELS (Nicole Boireau - Metz, France) 3. MARTIN CRIMP (Martin Middeke - Augsburg, Germany) 4. JIM CARTWRIGHT (Anette Pankratz - Bochum, Germany) 5. KEVIN ELYOT (Christina Wald - Augsburg, Germany) 6. APRIL DE ANGELIS (Rebecca D'Monte - Bristol, UK) 7. WINSOME PINNOCK (Elizabeth Sakellaridou - Thessaloniki, Greece) 8. JONATHAN HARVEY (Peter Paul Schnierer - Heidelberg, Germany) 9. PHILIP RIDLEY (Dan Rebellato - Royal Holloway, UK) 10. DAVID GREIG (Janelle Reinelt - Warwick, UK) 11. ANTHONY NEILSON (John Bull - Reading, UK) 12. JOE PENHALL (Margarete Rubik - Vienna, Austria) 13. SARAH KANE (Ken Urban - Harvard, USA) 14. DAVID ELDRIDGE (Graham Saunders - Reading, UK) 15. MARK RAVENHILL (Caridad Svich - New York, USA) 16. JEZ BUTTERWORTH (Aleks Sierz - London, UK) 17. DAVID HARROWER (Clare Wallace - Prague, Czech Republic) 18. TANIKA GUPTA (Gabriele Griffin - York, UK) 19. SHELAGH STEPHENSON (Peter Billingham - Portsmouth, UK) 20. ROY WILLIAMS (Deidre Osborne - Goldsmiths, UK) 21. GREGORY BURKE (David Pattie - Chester, UK) 22. SIMON STEPHENS (Christopher Innes - Toronto, Canada) 23. RICHARD BEAN (Eckart Voigts-Virchow - Siegen, Germany) 24. debbie tucker green (Elaine Aston - Lancaster, UK) 25. KWAME KWEI-ARMAH (Lynette Goddard - Royal Holloway, UK) CONCLUSION...
