Anger and After (Routledge Revivals) A Guide to the New British Drama

When it was first published in 1962, Anger and After was the first comprehensive study of the dramatic movement which began in 1956 with the staging of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger and has since brought forward such dramatists as Brendan Behan, Harold Pinter, N. F. Simpson, John Arden and Arnold Wesker. Thoroughly revised in 1969, this book remains important reading for theatre students in need of a comprehensive and authoritative guide to post-Osborne drama in Britain.

Introduction; Prologue: The Early Fifties; Dennis Cannan; John Whiting; Gukes Cooper; Presented at Court: Enter the English Stage Company; John Osborne; N. F. Simpson; Ann Jellicoe; John Arden; Other Royal Court Dramatists; Way Down East: Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop; Brenadan Behan; Shelagh Delaney; The Road from Wigan Pier: Production Out of Town; Arnold Wesker; Bernard Kops; David Campton; David Turner; More Playwrights in the Provinces; In the Air: Recruits from Radio and television; Alun Owen; Clive Exton; John Mortimer; Peter Shaffer; By Way of Experiment The Arts through Thick and Thin; Henry Livings; Johnny Speight; David Rudkin; First Impressions; A Room and Some Views: Harold Pinter; Epilogue: Art and Commerce: With a Few Tentative Conclusion; Index

John Russell Taylor