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Lettice & Lovage caught audiences off guard. After twenty years building an international career centred on serious drama, Peter Shaffer in 1987 suddenly returned to comedy. An entirely new generation was thus introduced to the less serious side of the award-winning playwright.
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For a closer look at the play see C. J. Gianakaris, ‘Placing Shaffer’s Lettice and Lovage in Perspective’, Comparative Drama, 22, 2 (Summer 1988) 145–61.
See for instance Jack Richardson, ‘The English Invasion’, Commentary, Feb, 1975, pp. 76–8; Joan F. Dean, ‘Peter Shaffer’s Recurrent Character Type’, Modern Drama, XXI, no. 3 (Sep 1978) 297–305; and Michael Billington, ‘Divining for a Theme’, Guardian, 5 Nov 1979, p. 11.
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Gianakaris, C.J. (1992). ‘Lettice & Lovage’: New Comedy for a New Age. In: Peter Schaffer. Modern Dramatists. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22046-5_8
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