David Hare: Moral and Historical Perspectives
In the last 30 years, David Hare has written 12 stage plays, seven screenplays and one opera, and has gained international attention as one of Britain's major contemporary playwrights. Hare's prominence springs not only from the sheer volume of his work, but from his long career of chronicling the social and political fragmentation in postwar Britain. This is the first work to demystify the implications of Hare's presentation of the moral and political health of the British nation. Arguing that one needs to have a deeply informed sense of English and British identity and postwar British society in order to understand Hare's work, Donesky thoroughly contextualizes and historicizes Hare's work. This study demonstrates how Hare's seemingly enigmatic moral vision is actually characteristic of the attitudes of Britain's governing classes.
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David Hare: Moral and Historical Perspectives
In the last 30 years, David Hare has written 12 stage plays, seven screenplays and one opera, and has gained international attention as one of Britain's major contemporary playwrights. Hare's prominence springs not only from the sheer volume of his work, but from his long career of chronicling the social and political fragmentation in postwar Britain. This is the first work to demystify the implications of Hare's presentation of the moral and political health of the British nation. Arguing that one needs to have a deeply informed sense of English and British identity and postwar British society in order to understand Hare's work, Donesky thoroughly contextualizes and historicizes Hare's work. This study demonstrates how Hare's seemingly enigmatic moral vision is actually characteristic of the attitudes of Britain's governing classes.
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David Hare: Moral and Historical Perspectives

David Hare: Moral and Historical Perspectives

by Finlay Donesky
David Hare: Moral and Historical Perspectives

David Hare: Moral and Historical Perspectives

by Finlay Donesky

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In the last 30 years, David Hare has written 12 stage plays, seven screenplays and one opera, and has gained international attention as one of Britain's major contemporary playwrights. Hare's prominence springs not only from the sheer volume of his work, but from his long career of chronicling the social and political fragmentation in postwar Britain. This is the first work to demystify the implications of Hare's presentation of the moral and political health of the British nation. Arguing that one needs to have a deeply informed sense of English and British identity and postwar British society in order to understand Hare's work, Donesky thoroughly contextualizes and historicizes Hare's work. This study demonstrates how Hare's seemingly enigmatic moral vision is actually characteristic of the attitudes of Britain's governing classes.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313297342
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 11/25/1996
Series: Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies , #75
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

FINLAY DONESKY is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. He has published articles on contemporary British and American drama.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Early Plays: Writing Off the Left
Knuckle and Teeth 'n' Smiles: Nostalgia for Consensual Values
Fanshen: A Positive Model for Change
Licking Hitler: The Boomerang Effect of Black Propaganda
Plenty: Hare's Definitive State-of-the-Nation Play
Dreams of Leaving: Privatization of Morality Begins
Wetherby: First Evocation of Thatcher's Britain
Discovery of the Soul in the 1980s
Discovery of the Soul in Historical Context
The Trilogy: The Refreshing of British Institutions
Heading Home and Skylight: Coming to the Defense of Nothing
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

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