Description: A critical study of the theatre produced in the 1970s with an in-depth analysis of the work of four key playwrights from the decade.
Brief description: Richard Boon is Emeritus Professor of Drama, the University of Hull, UK.
Review Quotes: 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.
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