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Title British dramatists since World War II / Stanley Weintraub, editor.

Publication Info. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, 1982.

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Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 13
Dictionary of literary biography complete online
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 13.
Dictionary of literary biography complete online.
Contents Part 1 -- John Arden (1930-) - Alan Ayckbourn (1939-) - Enid Bagnold (1889-1981) - Howard Barker (1946-) - Peter Barnes (1931-) - Samuel Beckett (1906-) - Brendan Behan (1923-1964) - Robert Bolt (1924-) - Edward Bond (1934-) - John Bowen (1924-) - Howard Brenton (1942-) - Wynyard Browne (1911-1964) - John Keyes Byrne (see Hugh Leonard) - Agatha Christie (1890-1976) - Caryl Churchill (1938-) - Giles Cooper (1918-1966) - David Cregan (1931-) - Shelagh Delaney (1939-) - Nigel Dennis (1912-) - Ronald Duncan (1914-1982) - Charles Dyer (1928-) - David Edgar (1948-) - Michael Frayn (1933-) - Brian Friel (1929-) - Christopher Fry (1907-) - Pam Gems (1925-) - Simon Gray (1936-) - Graham Greene (1904-) - Trevor Griffiths (1935-) - Christopher Hampton (1946-) - David Hare (1947-) - Conte Ronald Harwood (1934-) - William Douglas Home (1912-) - Ann Jellicoe (1927-) - John B. Keane (1928-) - Barrie Keeffe (1945-) - Bernard Kops (1926?-) - Hugh Leonard (1926-) - Benn Wolfe Levy (1900-1973) - Joan Littlewood (1914-) - Henry Livings (1929-) - Peter Luke (1919-).
Part 2 -- Walter Macken (1915-1967) - Frank Marcus (1928-) - David Mercer (1928-1980) - John Mortimer (1923-) - Bill Naughton (1910-) - Peter Nichols (1927-) - Joe Orton (1933-1967) - John Osborne (1929-) - Harold Pinter (1930-) - Stephen Poliakoff (1952-) - Terence Rattigan (1911-1977) - David Rudkin (1936-) - James Saunders (1925-) - Anthony Shaffer (1926-) - Peter Shaffer (1926-) - Robert Shaw (1927-1978) - N. F. Simpson (1919-) - Tom Stoppard (1937-) - David Storey (1933-) - Peter Terson (1932-) - Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) - Peter Ustinov (1921-) - Keith Waterhouse (1929-) - Arnold Wesker (1932-) - John Whiting (1917-1963) - Heathcote Williams (1941-) - Charles Wood (1932-1980) - The Postwar Theater: Three Statements - Writing for the Theatre - Playwrights and Professors - Viewpoint: politics and performance - Postwar Theater Companies - The Royal Court Theatre and the English Stage Company - Fringe and Alternative Theater in Great Britain - The National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company: the National Companies - The End of English Stage Censorship, 1945-1968.
Summary Contains biographical sketches of the most significant, and potentially most significant, playwrights of postwar Britain (including Ireland).
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi: Gale, 2007. Available via World Wide Web.
Original Version Original: 679 p.
System Details Mode of access: Internet.
Subject Dramatists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Dramatists, English.
Chronological Term 20th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject English drama -- 20th century.
English drama.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Author Weintraub, Stanley, 1929-2019.
Gale Group.
ISBN 081030936X
9780810309364