Modern British Playwriting: The 1970s

Chris Megson is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has taught and published widely in the field of modern drama, and is editor of The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays. Series Editors: Richard Boon, Emeritus Professor of Drama, the University of Hull, UK, and Philip Roberts, Emeritus Professor in the School of English, University of Leeds, UK.

Chris Megson’s Modern British Playwriting: The 1970s is a compelling addition to the growing volume of books surveying and examining late twentieth-century British playwriting...Chris Megson’s Modern British Playwriting: The 1970s is an outstanding example of its genre, giving an account of a remarkably self-critiquing period in British theatre history and which, with its own searching dynamic, offers with intellectual honesty a clear and thought-provoking interrogation of those times. The end Notes, Select Bibliography and the Index are a model of their kind.

• General Preface (Richard Boon and Philip Roberts)Introduction: Living in the SeventiesChapter 1: Theatre in the SeventiesChapter 2: Introducing the Playwrights: Caryl Churchill, David Hare, Howard Brenton and David EdgarChapter 3: Playwrights and Plays: Caryl Churchill by Paola Botham; David Hare by Chris Megson; Howard Brenton by Richard Boon; and David Edgar by Janelle ReineltChapter 4: Documents and InterviewsSelect Bibliography