English Drama Since 1940

David Ian Rabey is Reader in Drama and Subject Leader of Theatre Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.  He is also a dramatist, director and performer.

• INTRODUCTION: HOW SHOULD WE LIVE? 1. 1940-56: RECONCILIATION AND DISSOCIATION 2. OUT OF 1956: A RISING GENERATION 3. BECKETT AND PINTER: TERMINAL CONTRACTIONS OF (IN) CONSEQUENCE 4. OUT OF THE 1950's AND 1960's: WHOSE IS THE KINGDOM? 5. BOND: BLIND POWER 6. SUBVERSION AND CONCILLIATION: COMEDY FROM THE 1960's TO THE 7. OUT OF THE 1970's AND 1980's: RAGE AT A BLOCKED AGE: FOUR ODYSSEYS 8. MELTING THE BOUNDARIES: NEW EXPRESSIONISM FROM THE 1970's TO THE 1990's 9. IRISH DRAMA: TWILIGHTS AND TIGERS 10. FROM THE 1980's TO THE 1990's: TRAPPED ENOUGH TO BELONG 11. BARKER: APPALLING ENHANCEMENTS 12. A BLASTED F£££ing DIFFERENCE?: THE 1990's AND BEYOND THE BIG ZEROS

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