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- Sixties in America
Call Number: UCF Main Library General Collection -- PR739.P64P38 2003
1: Strategies of political theatre: a theoretical overview; 2: 'reflectionist' strategy: 'kitchen sink' realism in Arnold Wesker's Roots (1959); 3: 'interventionist' strategy: poetic politics in John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959); 4: dialectics of comedy: Trevor Griffiths's Comedians (1975); 5: Appropriating middle-class comedy: Howard Barker's Stripwell (1975); 6: Staging the future: Howard Brenton's The Churchill Play (1974); 7: Agit-prop revisited: John McGrath's The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (1973); 8: Brecht revisited: David Hare's Fanshen (1975); 9: Rewriting Shakespeare: Edward Bond's Lear (1971); 10: strategy of play: Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine (1979)
Look Back in Gender: Sexuality & the Family in Post-War British Drama by Michelene Wandor
Call Number: UCF Main Library General Collection -- PR739.S4
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"In this challenging book, first published in 1987, Michelene Wandor looks at the best-known plays in the thirty years prior to publication, from Look Back in Anger onwards. Wandor investigates the representation of the family and different forms of sexuality in these plays and re-reviews them from a perspective that throws into sharp relief the function of gender as an important determinant of plot, setting and the portrayal of character. Juxtaposing the period before 1968, when statutory censorship was still in force, with the years following its abolition, Wandor scrutinises the key plays of, among others, Osborne, Pinter, Wesker, Arden, and Delaney. Each one is analysed in terms of its social context: the influence of World War II, the testing of gender roles, the development of the Welfare State and changes in family patterns, and the impact of feminist, Left-wing and gay politics."
A Companion to Post-War British Theatre by Philip Barnes
Call Number: UCF Main Library Reference -- PN2595.B28 1986