Dornan Arnold Wesker

A Casebook
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-135-54145-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Casebooks on Modern Dramatists

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dornan, Reade W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editor's Note * Kimball King * Acknowledgments * Indtroduction * Reade W. Dornan * Chronology *
I.The Politics in Arnold Wesker's Plays
* The Trilogy, Forty Years On, Keith Gore * The Failure and Promise of "Socialism as Personal Contact" in Arnold Wesker's Roots, Kevin G. Asman * Arnold Wesker and the Desire for Utopia: Utopia's Enemies and Wesker, Heiner O. Zimmermann

II. Biographical Notes
Arnold Wesker, Margaret Drabble * Vision and Reality: Their Very Own and Golden City and Centre 42, Clive Barker * Well-nigh Wesker, Paul Levitt * Writing for Radio and Radio for Writing: Yardsale by Arnold Wesker, Alessandra Marzola

III. Historical Perspectives
* The Modernity of The Kitchen, Kimball King * Wesker's One-Woman Plays as Part of a Popular Tradition, Margaret Rose * Histories of the New Left: Arnold Wesker and the Angrier Young Men, Meenakshi Ponnuswami

IV. Critical Approaches
* Whatever Happened to Betty Lemon? Theatre Translation: Theory and Practice, Rossana Bonadei * Dialogic and Monologic Contexts in Arnold Wesker's Monologues and Monodramas, Klaus Peter Mÿller * Arnold Wesker and Women: His Later Plays, Glenda Leeming * Realistic Directions for Wesker's Stage, Angela Locatelli * Chips with Everything: A Snob's Progress?, Martin Priestman * Wisdom in Fragments: The Old Ones, Robert Gross

V. The Critical Response * The Four Seasons, Robert Wilcher * Wesker: Searching the Oneness Time, Robert Skloot * Contributors * Index