Overview: Analyzes significant works by such writers as Caryl Churchill, David Edgar, Howard Brenton, Howard Barker, Tom Stoppard, and Edward Bond.Covers a variety of disciplines including literature, theatre, This book investigates how the British theatrical community offered an alternative and oppositional historical narrative to the heritage culture promulgated by the Thatcher and Major Governments in the 1980s and early 1990s. It details the challenges the theatre faced, especially reductions in government funding, and examines seminal playwrights of the period – including but not limited
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