Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Politics & Literature, Society & Culture in Literature, Literary Theory - Major Schools, General & Miscellaneous Drama - Literary Criticism, English Drama - 20th Century - Literary Criticism
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Overview
Post-Colonial English Drama is the first critical survey of contemporary Commonwealth drama. Besides essays on such individual dramatists as Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, David Williamson, Louis Nowra, Athol Fugard, George Walker, Sharon Pollock and Judith Thompson there are surveys of the dramatic literature and developments in the theatre in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Papua New Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica and Trinidad. Canadian woman dramatists and the new radical South African theatre are among the topics. Bruce King's introduction discusses the comparative development of Commonwealth drama since the late 1940s.Book Details
Published
January 1, 1993
Publisher
New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 1992.
Pages
236
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780312079697