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A Pocket to Twentieth-Century Drama

A Pocket to Twentieth-Century Drama

by Stephen Unwin (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

    $3.27
Synopsis

Are you searching for an overview of the most significant plays? Are you looking for a snapshot analysis? Do you want to know the social and theatrical context? A Pocket Guide to 20th Century Drama gives all this and much, much more. It provides a short introduction to a dramatic century; puts each play into historical and theatrical context; gives the storyline and an analysis of each play, and provides details of major productions around the world. And, finally, there's a chronology of one thousand twentieth-century plays.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 318
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber
Published: 18 Jun 2001
ISBN 10: 0571200141
ISBN 13: 9780571200146
Book Overview: A Pocket Guide to Twentieth-Century Drama, by Stephen Unwin and Carole Woddis provides an overview of the twentieth century's most significant plays, with snapshot analysis, social and theatrical context, and much besides.

Author Bio
Stephen Unwin is Artistic Director of the Rose Theatre in Kingston. He founded English Touring Theatre in 1993, where his Shakespeare productions include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, As You Like It, Henry IV, Parts One and Two, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet. He is the winner of the 2003 Sam Wanamaker Shakespeare Globe Award. He directed Kenneth McLeish's translations of A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler and The Master Builder. He has directed more than fifty theatre and opera productions for the Royal National Theatre, English National Opera, the Royal Opera House, the Royal Court Theatre and many others. His work has been seen at the Donmar Warehouse, the Almeida Theatre and the Old Vic. He has co-written A Pocket Guide to Twentieth Century Drama and A Pocket Guide to Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg (Faber & Faber), So You Want to be a Theatre Director? (Nick Hern Books) and A Guide to the Plays of Bertolt Brecht (Methuen).