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Post-Colonial English Drama

Commonwealth Drama since 1960

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  • © 1992

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  1. Bruce King
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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Bruce King
      Pages 1-16

  3. Australia

    1. Australia

      • Margaret Williams
      Pages 17-34

    2. David Williamson

      • Dennis Carroll
      Pages 35-49

    3. Louis Nowra

      • Veronica Kelly
      Pages 50-66

  4. Canada

    1. Canada

      • Eugene Benson
      Pages 67-81

    2. George F. Walker

      • Chris Johnson
      Pages 82-96

    3. Women Dramatists: Sharon Pollock and Judith Thompson

      • Diane Bessai
      Pages 97-117

  5. India

    1. India

      • Karen Smith
      Pages 118-132

  6. New Zealand

    1. New Zealand

      • Sebastian Black
      Pages 133-149

  7. South Africa

    1. Athol Fugard

      • Brian Crow
      Pages 150-164

    2. The New South African Theatre: Beyond Fugard

      • Anne Fuchs
      Pages 165-180

  8. South Pacific

    1. Papua New Guinea and Fiji

      • Regis Stella
      Pages 181-185

  9. West Africa

    1. Ghana and Nigeria

      • Eliane Saint-Andre Utudjian
      Pages 186-199

    2. Wole Soyinka

      • Thomas R. Whitaker
      Pages 200-216

  10. West Indies

    1. Jamaica and Trinidad

      • Pierrette M. Frickey
      Pages 217-235

    2. Derek Walcott

      • Renu Juneja
      Pages 236-266

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 267-275
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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.

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