Anne Etienne is a lecturer in modern and contemporary drama at University College Cork. Her research is concerned with theatre censorship, contemporary Irish theatre and Arnold Wesker.Graham Saunders is the Allardyce Nicoll Professor of Theatre at the University of Birmingham. His research is directed at British theatre since 1945, as well as the drama of Samuel Beckett.

'Arnold Wesker: Fragments and Visions will add significantly to the body of scholarship on this important and sometimes neglected dramatist.'

• Introduction Anne Etienne and Graham SaundersPrologue: ‘It Matters’ Edward Bond PART 1: EARLY VISIONS 1. Radical Chic? Centre 42, the Roundhouse and How Culture Countered Wesker in the 1960s Lawrence Black2. Introducing Mr Harold Wesker Graham Saunders3. Roots: A Political Poem James Macdonald4. The Enigma That Is Pip: A Character under Construction in Wesker’s Chips with Everything John Bull5. Wesker’s Flawed Diamond: Their Very Own and Golden City Chris Megson PART 2: UNIFYING FRAGMENTS 6. ‘Let Battle Commence!’: The Wesker Controversies Harry Derbyshire 7. Representing Jewishness and Antisemitism in Arnold Wesker’s Work: Shylock, Badenheim 1939 and Blood LibelSue Vice 8. Wesker’s French Connections Anne Etienne 9. Wesker the Visual Artist – ‘Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life!’ Pamela Howard 10. A Charming Rogue: Wesker’s Relationship with Women – and with Himself Michael Fry 11. The Idea of Community in the Plays of Arnold Wesker from The Kitchen to Beorhtel’s Hill Robert Wilcher Notes on Contributors

Anne Etienne is a lecturer in modern and contemporary drama at University College Cork. Her research is concerned with theatre censorship, contemporary Irish theatre and Arnold Wesker.Graham Saunders is the Allardyce Nicoll Professor of Theatre at the University of Birmingham. His research is directed at British theatre since 1945, as well as the drama of Samuel Beckett.

'Arnold Wesker: Fragments and Visions will add significantly to the body of scholarship on this important and sometimes neglected dramatist.'

• Introduction Anne Etienne and Graham SaundersPrologue: ‘It Matters’ Edward Bond PART 1: EARLY VISIONS 1. Radical Chic? Centre 42, the Roundhouse and How Culture Countered Wesker in the 1960s Lawrence Black2. Introducing Mr Harold Wesker Graham Saunders3. Roots: A Political Poem James Macdonald4. The Enigma That Is Pip: A Character under Construction in Wesker’s Chips with Everything John Bull5. Wesker’s Flawed Diamond: Their Very Own and Golden City Chris Megson PART 2: UNIFYING FRAGMENTS 6. ‘Let Battle Commence!’: The Wesker Controversies Harry Derbyshire 7. Representing Jewishness and Antisemitism in Arnold Wesker’s Work: Shylock, Badenheim 1939 and Blood LibelSue Vice 8. Wesker’s French Connections Anne Etienne 9. Wesker the Visual Artist – ‘Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life!’ Pamela Howard 10. A Charming Rogue: Wesker’s Relationship with Women – and with Himself Michael Fry 11. The Idea of Community in the Plays of Arnold Wesker from The Kitchen to Beorhtel’s Hill Robert Wilcher Notes on Contributors

Anne Etienne is a lecturer in modern and contemporary drama at University College Cork. Her research is concerned with theatre censorship, contemporary Irish theatre and Arnold Wesker.Graham Saunders is the Allardyce Nicoll Professor of Theatre at the University of Birmingham. His research is directed at British theatre since 1945, as well as the drama of Samuel Beckett.

'Arnold Wesker: Fragments and Visions will add significantly to the body of scholarship on this important and sometimes neglected dramatist.'

• Introduction Anne Etienne and Graham SaundersPrologue: ‘It Matters’ Edward Bond PART 1: EARLY VISIONS 1. Radical Chic? Centre 42, the Roundhouse and How Culture Countered Wesker in the 1960s Lawrence Black2. Introducing Mr Harold Wesker Graham Saunders3. Roots: A Political Poem James Macdonald4. The Enigma That Is Pip: A Character under Construction in Wesker’s Chips with Everything John Bull5. Wesker’s Flawed Diamond: Their Very Own and Golden City Chris Megson PART 2: UNIFYING FRAGMENTS 6. ‘Let Battle Commence!’: The Wesker Controversies Harry Derbyshire 7. Representing Jewishness and Antisemitism in Arnold Wesker’s Work: Shylock, Badenheim 1939 and Blood LibelSue Vice 8. Wesker’s French Connections Anne Etienne 9. Wesker the Visual Artist – ‘Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life!’ Pamela Howard 10. A Charming Rogue: Wesker’s Relationship with Women – and with Himself Michael Fry 11. The Idea of Community in the Plays of Arnold Wesker from The Kitchen to Beorhtel’s Hill Robert Wilcher Notes on Contributors