Peter Wolfe is a curators’ professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The author of more than 20 books, he has also taught in Canada, New Zealand, Taiwan, Russia, Poland and Australia.

“Wolfe’s well-executed, uncommonly astute, eminently readable critical study charts the journey of the conflicted Englishman’s distinctive dramatic art. Highly recommended”—Choice; “Simon Gray is the best British playwright whose work too many Americans are not familiar enough with. Happily, Peter Wolfe brings him and his astonishing body of work to our attention and keeps it there throughout this probing, exhaustive and thoroughly readable study of the man and his plays. You will want to know all Simon Gray’s plays after reading Mr. Wolfe’s book and you will be very glad you did.”—Terrence McNally, Playwright.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Abbreviations      viiiPreface      1. Up from Bundling      2. Bundling Alchemized      3. The Labors of the Thrice- Born      4. Exit Wounds      5. Nodes on a Grid      6. The Death of Education      7. Coercive Connections      Conclusion: Stranded      Bibliography      Index

Peter Wolfe is a curators’ professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The author of more than 20 books, he has also taught in Canada, New Zealand, Taiwan, Russia, Poland and Australia.

“Wolfe’s well-executed, uncommonly astute, eminently readable critical study charts the journey of the conflicted Englishman’s distinctive dramatic art. Highly recommended”—Choice; “Simon Gray is the best British playwright whose work too many Americans are not familiar enough with. Happily, Peter Wolfe brings him and his astonishing body of work to our attention and keeps it there throughout this probing, exhaustive and thoroughly readable study of the man and his plays. You will want to know all Simon Gray’s plays after reading Mr. Wolfe’s book and you will be very glad you did.”—Terrence McNally, Playwright.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Abbreviations      viiiPreface      1. Up from Bundling      2. Bundling Alchemized      3. The Labors of the Thrice- Born      4. Exit Wounds      5. Nodes on a Grid      6. The Death of Education      7. Coercive Connections      Conclusion: Stranded      Bibliography      Index

Peter Wolfe is a curators’ professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The author of more than 20 books, he has also taught in Canada, New Zealand, Taiwan, Russia, Poland and Australia.

“Wolfe’s well-executed, uncommonly astute, eminently readable critical study charts the journey of the conflicted Englishman’s distinctive dramatic art. Highly recommended”—Choice; “Simon Gray is the best British playwright whose work too many Americans are not familiar enough with. Happily, Peter Wolfe brings him and his astonishing body of work to our attention and keeps it there throughout this probing, exhaustive and thoroughly readable study of the man and his plays. You will want to know all Simon Gray’s plays after reading Mr. Wolfe’s book and you will be very glad you did.”—Terrence McNally, Playwright.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Abbreviations      viiiPreface      1. Up from Bundling      2. Bundling Alchemized      3. The Labors of the Thrice- Born      4. Exit Wounds      5. Nodes on a Grid      6. The Death of Education      7. Coercive Connections      Conclusion: Stranded      Bibliography      Index