Contains biographical sketches of the most significant, and potentially most significant, playwrights of postwar Britain (including Ireland)
Contents
pt. 1. A-L ; John Arden -- Alan Ayckbourn -- Enid Bagnold -- Peter Barnes -- Samuel Beckett -- Brendan Behan -- Robert Bolt -- Edward Bond -- John Bowden -- Howard Brenton -- Wynyard Browne -- Agatha Christie -- Caryl Churchill -- Giles Cooper -- David Cregan -- Shelagh Delaney -- Nigel Dennis -- Ronald Duncan -- Charles Dyer -- David Edgar -- Michael Frayn -- Brian Friel -- Christopher Fry -- Pam Gems -- Simon Gray -- Graham Greene -- Trevor Griffths -- Christopher Hampton -- David Hare -- Ronald Harwood -- William Douglas Home -- Ann Jellicoe -- John B. Keane -- Barrie Keeffe -- Bernard Kops -- Hugh Leonard -- Benn Wolfe Levy -- Joan Littlewood -- Henry Livings -- Peter Luke -- pt. 2. M-Z ; Walter Macken -- Frank Marcus -- David Mercer -- John Mortimer -- Bill Naughton -- Peter Nichols -- Joe Orton -- John Osborne -- Harold Pinter -- Stephen Poliakoff -- Terence Rattigan -- David Rudkin -- James Saunders -- Anthony Shaffer -- Peter Shaffer -- Robert Shaw -- N.F. Simpson -- Tom Stoppard -- David Storey -- Peter Terson -- Dylan Thomas -- Peter Ustinov -- Keith Waterhouse -- Arnold Wesker -- John Whiting -- Heathcote Williams -- Charles Wood
Analysis
Dramatists, English -- 20th century -- Biography
Notes
"A Bruccoli Clark book."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (volumes 2, pages 653-655)
