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Arnold Wesker Fragments and Visions.
New collection redefines Wesker's place within theatre culture and questions the canonical boundaries associated with his work. Re-evaluating his legacy with new archival material, it explores his eclectic aesthetic range as well as his unerring concern for the human condition: a lasting '...
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| Language: | English |
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Bristol :
Intellect Books Ltd,
2020.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Frontispiece
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of contents
- Part 1 Early Visions
- 1 Radical Chic? Centre 42, the Roundhouse and How Culture Countered Wesker in the 1960s
- Wesker's 1960s: Cultural and Political Context
- Roots and knots
- Roundhouse: The rise and fall
- Friends (and foes and funds)
- Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- 2 Introducing Mr Harold Wesker
- Theatrical contemporaries
- Bridges, pauses and silences
- Dramatists of conviction
- Jewish dramatists
- Notes
- References
- 3 Roots: A Political Poem
- 4 The Enigma That Is Pip: A Character under Construction in Wesker's Chips with Everything
- The Conscripts
- Never trust the author?
- Notes
- References
- 5 Wesker's Flawed Diamond: Their Very Own and Golden City
- 'It does work'
- Antecedents and influences
- 'Patchwork' politics
- 'Poet [of] committed theatre'
- 'So much better than Serjeant Musgrave, darling!'
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Part 2 Unifying Fragments
- 6 'Let Battle Commence!': The Wesker Controversies
- 'Critic as Censor': Wesker versus reviewers
- 'One of us is mad': Wesker versus directors
- 'However admirable they may be': Wesker versus other playwrights
- 'Stand up and be counted': Wesker and global politics
- Conclusion: 'Perhaps I don't play the game'
- Notes
- References
- 7 Representing Jewishness and Antisemitism in Arnold Wesker's Work: Shylock, Badenheim 1939 and Blood Libel
- Shylock
- Badenheim 1939
- Blood Libel
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 8 Wesker's French Connections
- From Racines to Souvenirs fantômes
- Enter: Les metteurs-en-scène
- Crrritique!
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 9 Wesker the Visual Artist - 'Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life!'
- How I met Arnold Wesker
- Artistic collaborations
- A visual artist
- 10 A Charming Rogue: Wesker's Relationship with Women - and with Himself
- Letters and liaisons
- Women and one-woman plays
- Annie Wobbler (1983)
- Whatever Happened to Betty Lemon? (1986)
- Yardsale (1987)
- Letter to a Daughter (1998)
- Director/playwright/player
- Forerunner
- Notes
- References
- 11 The Idea of Community in the Plays of Arnold Wesker from The Kitchen to Beorhtel's Hill
- Positive and negative versions of community in The Trilogy
- Attempts to construct communities
- Reconnecting with the past
- Lessons of history
- References
- Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover