Essays on Politics and Literature / / Bernard Crick.
This lively collection of essays gives a non-technical, but profound analysis of the essential relationship between politics and literature. Bernard Crick shows how 'political theatre' is often both bad theatre and simplistic politics, but how good producers can bring out political message...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (238 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- One Literature and Politics
- Two The Political in Britain’s Two National Theatres
- Three Young Writers of the Thirties
- Four Koestler’s Koestler
- Five Hannah Arendt: Hedgehog or Fox?
- Six Beatrice Webb as English Diarist
- Seven Words
- Eight My LSE
- Nine Reading The Observer as a complex text
- Ten On the Difficulties of Writing Biography in General and of Orwell’s in particular
- Eleven Reading Nineteen Eighty-Four As Satire
- Twelve Animal Farm For Schools
- Thirteen Orwell and English Socialism
- Fourteen On the Orwell Trail
- Fifteen Wedekind’s ‘Spring Awakening’
- Sixteen Horvath’s ‘Tales From the Vienna Woods’
- Seventeen Pinter’s ‘No Man’s Land’
- Eighteen Polly By Gaslight
- Nineteen David Edgar Catches Peter Jenkins’ Ear at the Barbican
- Twenty Barrault at the Barbican
- Index