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General Preface | p. ix |
Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Introduction to the 1960s | p. 1 |
Domestic life | p. 1 |
Society | p. 3 |
Science, technology and industry | p. 8 |
Culture | p. 9 |
Media | p. 15 |
Political events | p. 20 |
Theatre in the 1960s | p. 29 |
1960-64 | p. 31 |
Performance and politics | p. 31 |
Cruelty and violence | p. 34 |
Shakespeare | p. 36 |
Staging reality | p. 38 |
The age of satire | p. 41 |
Theatres of war | p. 43 |
Beyond words | p. 49 |
Aunt Edna versus the RSC | p. 54 |
1965-69 | p. 58 |
Documentary theatre | p. 62 |
Staging Vietnam | p. 64 |
Race | p. 67 |
The American avant-garde | p. 72 |
The golden age | p. 74 |
Waiting for paradise | p. 79 |
Conclusion | p. 82 |
Introducing the Playwrights | p. 85 |
Introduction to John Arden | p. 85 |
Introduction to Edward Bond | p. 91 |
Introduction to Harold Pinter | p. 97 |
Introduction to Alan Ayckboum | p. 102 |
Playwrights and Plays | p. 108 |
John Arden | p. 108 |
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance | p. 110 |
The Workhouse Donkey | p. 119 |
Armstrong's Last Good Night | p. 126 |
Britain's Brecht | p. 134 |
Conclusion | p. 134 |
Edward Bond | p. 136 |
Saved | p. 139 |
Early Morning | p. 147 |
Lear | p. 154 |
Conclusion | p. 160 |
Harold Pinter | p. 161 |
The Caretaker | p. 163 |
Early audience response; or, A bloody pain in the neck' | p. 168 |
The Homecoming | p. 171 |
Pinter beyond Britain; or looking for Beckett | p. 175 |
Censorship | p. 178 |
Landscape and Silence | p. 181 |
Afterword | p. 187 |
Alan Ayckbourn | p. 190 |
1960-64: taking (first) steps | p. 192 |
1965-70: comedies of sex and class | p. 196 |
Relatively Speaking | p. 198 |
How the Other Half Loves and Family Circles | p. 205 |
Afterword | p. 214 |
Documents | p. 216 |
John Arden | p. 216 |
Edward Bond | p. 224 |
Harold Pinter | p. 233 |
Afterword | p. 243 |
John Arden | p. 243 |
Edward Bond | p. 249 |
Harold Pinter | p. 254 |
Alan Ayckbourn | p. 260 |
Notes | p. 266 |
Select Bibliography | p. 288 |
Index | p. 295 |
Notes on contributors | p. 304 |
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