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1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankStrategiesofPoliticalTheatrePost-WarBritishPlaywrightsThisvolumeprovidesatheoreticalframeworkforsomeofthemostimportantplaywritinginBritaininthesecondhalfofthetwentiethcentury.ExaminingrepresentativeplaysbyArnoldWesker,JohnArden,TrevorGrif?ths,HowardBarker,HowardBre
2、nton,EdwardBond,DavidHare,JohnMcGrathandCarylChurchill,theauthoranalysestheirrespectivestrategiesforpersuadingaudiencesoftheneedforaradicalrestructuringofsociety.Thebookbeginswithadiscussionofthewaythattheatrehasbeenusedtoconveyapoliticalmessage.Eachchapteristhendevotedtoanexplorationoftheengag
3、ementwithleft-wingpoliticaltheatreofanindividualplaywright,includingadetailedanalysisofoneoftheirmajorplays.Despitepoliticalchangesincethe1980s,politicalplaywritingcontinuestobeasigni?cantelementincontemporaryplaywriting,butinaverychangedform.michaelpattersonisProfessorofTheatreatDeMontfortUniv
4、ersity,Leicester.HeisamajorBritishauthorityonGermantheatre,especiallytwentieth-centurypoliticaltheatreinGermany.HeisauthorofGermanTheatreToday;TheRevolutioninGermanTheatre1900–1933;PeterStein;TheFirstGermanTheatre;andGermanTheatre:ABibliography,andiseditorofGeorgBuchner:¨CollectedPlays.Hehaspub
5、lishednumerousarticlesonGermanNaturalisttheatre,Reinhardt,Pirandello,Brecht,concentrationcamptheatre,KroetzandEastGermantheatre.CAMBRIDGESTUDIESINMODERNTHEATRESerieseditorDavidBradby,RoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondonAdvisoryboardMartinBanham,UniversityofLeedsJackyBratton,RoyalHolloway,University
6、ofLondonTracyDavis,NorthwesternUniversitySirRichardEyreMichaelRobinson,UniversityofEastAngliaSheilaStowell,UniversityofBirminghamVolumesforCambridgeStudiesinModernTheatreexplorethepolitical,socialandculturalfunctionsoftheatrewhilealsopayingcarefulattentiontodetailedperformanceanalysis.Thefocuso
7、ftheseriesisonpoliticalapproachestothemoderntheatrewithattentionalsobeingpaidtotheatresofearlierperiodsandtheirin?uenceoncontemporarydrama.Topicsintheseriesarechosentoinvestigatethisrelationshipandincludebothplaywrights(theiraimsa