Author: Simon GrayPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Definitive Simon Gray IV.
Author: Simon GrayThe Definitive Simon Gray
Author: Simon GrayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780571164530
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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This is the third of four volumes of plays and includes Quartermaine's Terms, Otherwise Engaged, Stage Struck, Close of Play, The Rear Column, A Month in the Country and Tartuffe.
The Definitive Simon Gray
Author: Simon GraySimon Gray Unbound
Author: Peter WolfePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786485302
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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The work of English playwright Simon Gray (1936-2008) has always resisted ideological and stylistic labels. His artistic independence has also had an unwelcome side effect: It cost him the critical attention garnered by his peers. This book, the first monograph on Gray, examines his oeuvre from the early plays, which hack away at the formalism and humanism of traditional English satire, to the later ones, in which he explores English professionals and their problems connecting with each other. If Gray remains the least known major English dramatist of his day, he's also one of the boldest and best.
The Definitive Simon Gray III.
Author: Simon GrayThe Definitive Simon Gray: Otherwise engaged
Author: Simon GrayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780571164530
Category : English drama
Languages : en
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Simon Gray: Plays 4
Author: Simon GrayPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571307612
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 463
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'Sharp, funny and clever . . . What a pleasure to re-encounter a play that combines unabashed intelligence and zinging wit with a rare generosity of spirit.' Daily Telegraph on The Common Pursuit 'Gray's stature as one of the handful of great tragi-comic English dramatists of the second half of the twentieth century would appear now to be undisputed.' Howard Jacobson, Critical Quarterly Hidden Laughter 'A sad divine comedy, superbly written. Gray nurses his characters and cares for them, but he never pampers them, or pities them, or presumes to use them as his spokesman. In this respect, he has become an English Chekhov... At the same time, Gray dispenses some of the incandescent malice and moral savagery of Coward at his acid best... But, of course, comparisons can only help you get your bearings. Gray is entirely his own man in this painful, querulous, warm, hard and mature play.' Sunday Times
The Definitive Simon Gray: Hidden laughter
Author: Simon GrayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780571164530
Category : English drama
Languages : en
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British Playwrights, 1956-1995
Author: William W. DemastesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1567507433
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
The year 1956 marked a point when British drama and theater fell into the hands of a group of young playwrights who revolutionized the stage. During that time, playwrights such as Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter made the British theater as rich, varied, and vital as any national theater in history. This reference chronicles the history of British theater from 1956 to 1995 by providing detailed information about the playwrights of that period. Included are entries for some three dozen British playwrights active between 1956 and 1995. Entries are arranged alphabetically to facilitate use. Each entry supplies biographical information, the production history for particular plays, a survey of the playwright's critical reception, an assessment of the dramatist's work, and primary and secondary bibliographies. A selected, general bibliography at the end of the volume directs the reader to important sources of additional information about this period in theater history.
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