Making Plays

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Duncan Wu

   Pages 1-11

3. Howard Brenton, Bloody Poetry (1984–88)

   • Duncan Wu

   Pages 12-52

4. Max Stafford-Clark

   • Duncan Wu

   Pages 53-73

5. Alan Bennett, The Madness of George III (1991)

   • Duncan Wu

   Pages 74-98

6. Nicholas Hytner

   • Duncan Wu

   Pages 99-110

7. David Edgar, Pentecost (1994)

   • Duncan Wu

   Pages 111-146

8. Michael Attenborough

   • Duncan Wu

   Pages 147-165

9. David Hare, Amy’s View (1997)

   • Duncan Wu

   Pages 166-197

10. Richard Eyre

    • Duncan Wu

    Pages 198-207

11. Michael Frayn, Copenhagen (1998)

    • Duncan Wu

    Pages 208-230

12. Michael Blakemore

    • Duncan Wu

    Pages 231-250

13. Back Matter

    Pages 251-264

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Making Plays explores great drama of the last two decades through the eyes of those who write it, and those who direct it. It is at once a masterclass on theatrical technique and a unique insight into the ways in which great dramatists of our time have reacted to a rapidly changing world. In this book Duncan Wu talks to Michael Attenborough, Alan Bennett, Michael Blakemore, Howard Brenton, David Edgar, Sir Richard Eyre, Michael Frayn, Sir David Hare, Nicholas Hytner, and Max Stafford-Clark.

• drama
• Great Britain
• William Blake
• British and Irish Literature

• St Catherine’s College, Oxford, UK

  Duncan Wu

DUNCAN WU is Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow. His publications include Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1815, Romanticism: An Anthology and Six Contemporary Dramatists.

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