"An imprint of Pearson Education."

Contains work on the following playwrights: John Whiting, John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Ann Jellicoe, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Arden and D'Arcy, Mercer, Nichols and Wood, Cooper, Orton, Gray, Frayn, Leigh, Stoppard, Ayckbourn, Bennett, Peter Barnes, Howard Brenton, David Hare, David Edgar, Stephen Poliakoff, David Rudkuin, Steven Berkoff, Caryl Churchill, Timberlake Wertenbaker

How should we live? -- 1940-56: reconciliation and dissociation -- Out of 1956: a rising generation -- Beckett and Pinter: terminal contractions of (in)consequence -- Out of the 1950s and 1960s: Whose is the kingdom? -- Bond: blind power -- Subversion and conciliation: comedy from the 1960s to the 1990s -- Out of the 1970s and 1980s: rage at a blocked age: four odysseys -- Melting the boundaries: new expressionism from the 1970s to the 1990s -- Irish drama: twilights and tigers -- From the 1980s to the 1990s: trapped enough to belong -- Barker: appalling enhancements -- A blasted f---ing difference?: the 1990s and beyond the big zeros