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Companion to modern British and Irish drama, 1880-2005 /
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Oxford ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2010.
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| Edition: | Pbk. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Domestic and imperial politics in Britain and Ireland : the testimony of Irish theatre / Victor Merriman
- Reinventing England / Declan Kiberd
- Ibsen in the English theatre in the Fin de Siècle / Katherine Newey
- New woman drama / Sally Ledger
- Shaw among the artists / Jan McDonald
- Granville Barker and the court dramatists / Cary M. Mazer
- Gregory, Yeats and Ireland's Abbey Theatre / Mary Trotter
- Suffrage theatre : community activism and political commitment / Susan Carlson
- Unlocking Synge today / Christopher Murray
- Sean O'Casey's powerful fireworks / Jean Chothia
- Auden and Eliot : theatres of the thirties / Robin Grove
- Empire and class in the theatre of John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy / Mary Brewer
- When was the Golden Age? Narratives of loss and decline : John Osborne, Arnold Wesker and Rodney Ackland / Stephen Lacey
- A commercial success : women playwrights in the 1950s / Susan Bennett
- Home thoughts from abroad : Mustapha Matura / D. Keith Peacock
- The remains of the British Empire : the plays of Winsome Pinnock / Gabriele Griffin
- Wilde's comedies / Richard Allen Cave
- Always acting : Noël Coward and the performing self / Frances Gray
- Beckett's divine comedy / Katharine Worth
- Form and ethics in the comedies of Brendan Behan / John Brannigan
- Joe Orton : anger, artifice and absurdity / David Higgins
- Alan Ayckbourn : experiments in comedy / Alexander Leggatt
- They both add up to me : the logic of Tom Stoppard's dialogic comedy / Paul Delaney
- Stewart Parker's comedy of terrors / Anthony Roche
- A wounded stage : drama and World War I / Mary Luckhurst
- Staging the Holocaust in England / John Lennard
- Troubling perspectives : Northern Ireland, the troubles and drama / Helen Lojek
- On war : Charles Wood's military conscience / Dawn Fowler and John Lennard
- Torture in the plays of Harold Pinter / Mary Luckhurst
- Sarah Kane : from terror to trauma / Steve Waters
- Theatre since 1968 / David Pattie
- Lesbian and gay theatre : all queer on the West End front / John Deeney
- Edward Bond : maker of myths / Michael Patterson
- John McGrath and popular political theatre / Maria DiCenzo
- David Hare and political playwriting : between the third way and the permanent way / John Deeney
- Left in front : David Edgar's political theatre / John Bull
- Liz Lochhead : writer and re-writer : stories, ancient and modern / Jan McDonald
- Spirits that have become mean and broken : Tom Murphy and the famine of modern Ireland / Shaun Richards
- Caryl Churchill : feeling global / Elin Diamond
- Howard Barker and the theatre of catastrophe / Chris Megson
- Reading history in the plays of Brian Friel / Lionel Pilkington
- Marina Carr : violence and destruction : language, space and landscape / Cathy Leeney
- Scrubbing up nice? Tony Harrison's stagings of the past / Richard Rowland
- The question of multiculturalism : the plays of Roy Williams / D. Keith Peacock
- Ed Thomas : jazz pictures in the gaps of language / David Ian Rabey
- Theatre and technology / Andy Lavender.