Post-Colonial English Drama: Commonwealth Drama since 1960

✍ Scribed by Bruce King (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 285
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Post-Colonial English Drama is the first critical survey of contemporary Commonwealth drama. Besides essays on such individual dramatists as Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, David Williamson, Louis Nowra, Athol Fugard, George Walker, Sharon Pollock and Judith Thompson there are surveys of the dramatic literature and developments in the theatre in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Papua New Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica and Trinidad. Canadian woman dramatists and the new radical South African theatre are also among the topics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Australia....Pages 17-34
David Williamson....Pages 35-49
Louis Nowra....Pages 50-66
Canada....Pages 67-81
George F. Walker....Pages 82-96
Women Dramatists: Sharon Pollock and Judith Thompson....Pages 97-117
India....Pages 118-132
New Zealand....Pages 133-149
Athol Fugard....Pages 150-164
The New South African Theatre: Beyond Fugard....Pages 165-180
Papua New Guinea and Fiji....Pages 181-185
Ghana and Nigeria....Pages 186-199
Wole Soyinka....Pages 200-216
Jamaica and Trinidad....Pages 217-235
Derek Walcott....Pages 236-266
Back Matter....Pages 267-275

✦ Subjects

Postcolonial/World Literature; Comparative Literature; Contemporary Literature; Theatre and Performance Studies