By Action Dignified: British Theatre 1968-1995: Text and Context

1 Legacy of 60s: Prospects for 70s (Lord Chamberlain; Economy, Politics/Theatre; Cultural Politics; The Fringe: Ideologies/Influences; Community Theatre; Women's Lib/the Theatre; Hare: Doubting Political Commitment; 70s in Motion) 2 The 80s: New Developments (Esslin on the Coming 80s; Political 80s; Theatrical 80s; Alternative in Crisis; Barker's Assessment/Theory; New Directions in Feminist Theatre; On the Threshold of 90s: New Arrivals/Significant Departures) 3 Adapting Elizabethans for the Modern Stage: Shakespeare/Marlowe v. Marowitz, Bond, Stoppard, Thacker/Jarman (Shakespeare Rediscovered; Marowitz/Classics in 60s; Macbeth by Marowitz; Bond/Lear; Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet/Cahoot's Macbeth; The Case of Lady Othello; Jarman's Edward II/Thacker's Julius Caesar; Conclusion) 4 Idea of Native Tradition- The Dispute: Drama/History (Making of Historical Drama; Most Spectacular Downfall of King Arthur, Cromwell/Others; People's War in the Theatre/on TV; Griffiths v. Edgar; History as Madness, Disease/Cruelty; History/Contemporaneity) 5 At the Crossroads of Historical/Contempo­rary-Political Theatre (Stoppard Goes East; Howard Goes East; Hare Goes East; Pinter's One for the Road, Mountain Language, Party Time/New World Order; Britain's Corridors of Power in Hare's Trilogy; State of Revolution; Griffiths' Revolutions Old/New; Brenton: Politics of Terrorism; A Word from Bond; War/Revolution in Eastern Europe) 6 Women/the Theatre: Herstory/His Story of Her 7 Postmodern Theatre in Postmodern Society (Old Times' Passion/Betrayal; Porter 35 Years Later; The Secret Rapture; Provincial England Revisited; Friel's Ireland; Violence/Victimisation: Equus; Theatralizing the Domestic; Absurd Legacy; Comedy; Agatha Christie; Ayckbourn: A Paradigm of the Entertainment Industry; Towards a Postmodern Arcadia?; Conclusion) 8 Summing up (Assessing the Present; Looking for Aesthetic Evaluations; Assessing the Future)