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English Drama Since 1940 considers the developments of themes, styles, concerns and contexts, both for individual dramatists and stage drama generally during the period 1940 - 2000. David Rabey introduces us to the theatre and what it does by demonstrating the unique power of the articulate physical presence. He also identifies some of the principal ways that the issue of cultural value is manifested and dramatised in arguments for the presentation and subsidy of theatre in this period. The Longman Literature in English Series is intended to provide students of literature with a critical introduction to the major literary genres in their historical context.
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INTRODUCTION: HOW SHOULD WE LIVE? 1. 1940-56: RECONCILIATION AND DISSOCIATION 2. OUT OF 1956: A RISING GENERATION 3. BECKETT AND PINTER: TERMINAL CONTRACTIONS OF (IN) CONSEQUENCE 4. OUT OF THE 1950's AND 1960's:
WHOSE IS THE KINGDOM? 5. BOND: BLIND POWER 6. SUBVERSION AND CONCILLIATION: COMEDY FROM THE 1960's TO THE 7. OUT OF THE 1970's AND 1980's: RAGE AT A BLOCKED AGE: FOUR ODYSSEYS 8. MELTING THE BOUNDARIES: NEW EXPRESSIONISM FROM THE 1970's TO THE 1990's 9. IRISH DRAMA: TWILIGHTS AND TIGERS 10. FROM THE 1980's TO THE 1990's: TRAPPED ENOUGH TO BELONG 11. BARKER: APPALLING ENHANCEMENTS 12. A BLASTED F£££ing DIFFERENCE?: THE 1990's AND BEYOND THE BIG ZEROS
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David Ian Rabey
