Title Strategies of political theatre : post-War British playwrights / Michael Patterson.

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Description	xviii, 232 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	Cambridge studies in modern theatre
	Cambridge studies in modern theatre.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-222) and index.
Contents	Strategies of political theatre : a theoretical overview -- 'Reflectionist' strategy : 'kitchen sink' realism in Arnold Wesker's Roots (1959) -- 'Interventionist' strategy : poetic politics in John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959) -- Dialectics of comedgy : Trevor Griffith's Comedians (1975) -- Appropriating middle-class comedy : Howard Barker's Stripwell -- Staging the future : Howard Breton's The Churchill Play (1974) -- Agit-prop revisited : John McGrath's The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil (1973) -- Brecht revisited : David Hare's Fanshen (1975).
	Rewriting Shakespeare : Edward Bond's Lear (1971) -- Stragegy of play : Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine (1979).
Subject	English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	English drama.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
	Politics and literature.
	Great Britain.
	History.
	Theater -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
	Theater -- Political aspects.
	Political plays, English -- History and criticism.
	Political plays, English.
ISBN	0521258553
	0521277329 paperback