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DRAMA,1970-90  \nContemporary BritishDrama,1970-90  \nEssays from Modern Drama  \nEdited by  \nHERSH ZEIFMAN  \nAssociate Professor of EnglishMcLaughlin College,York University  \nand  \nCYNTHIA ZIMMERMAN  \nAssociate Professor of EnglishGlendon College,York University  \n◎Hersh Zeifman and Cynthia Zimmerman 1993Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1993  \nAll rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmission ofthis publication may be made without written permission.  \nNo paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copied ortransmitted save with written permission or in accordance withthe provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988,or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copyingissued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,90 Tottenham CourtRoad,London W1P9HE.  \nAny person who does any unauthorised act in relation to thispublication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civilclaims for damages.  \nFirst published 1993 by  \nTHE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD  \nHoundmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG212XSand London  \nCompanies and representativesthroughout the world  \nISBN 978-1-349-10821-3  \nISBN 978-1-349-10819-0(eBook)  \nDOI 10.1007/978-1-349-10819-0  \nA catalogue record for this book is availablefrom the British Library.  \nContents  \nDates of Original Publication  \nNotes on the Contributors  \nxi  \nIntroduction1Hersh Zeifman  \nPinter's Old Times:The Memory Game6Stephen Martineau  \nRehearsal as Critical Method:Pinter's Old Times19Lawrence I.Eilenberg  \n28Cinematic Fidelity and the Forms of Pinter's BetrayalEnoch Brater  \nThe Spectator in Drama/Drama in the Spectator:Peter Shaffer's Equus41Una Chaudhuri  \nOn the Structure of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus62Werner Huber and Hubert Zapf  \nThe Political Spectrum of Edward Bond:FromRationalism to Rhapsody81Christopher Innes  \nBond's Restoration101Katharine Worth  \nEdward Bond's Summer:“a voice from the workingclass”119Philip Roberts  \nThe Serious Side of Alan Ayckbourn134Malcolm Page  \nContents  \nMakers of Real Shapes:Christopher Hampton andHis Story-tellersSebastian Black  \nThe Emblematic Structure and Setting of DavidStorey's PlaysAustin E.Quigley  \nAfter Magritte,After Carroll,After Wittgenstein:What Tom Stoppard's Tortoise Taught UsKeir Elam  \nThe Optical Allusion:Perception and Form inStoppard's Travesties199John William Cooke  \nComedy of Ambush:Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing217Hersh Zeifman  \nThe Unhappy Mean in Simon Gray's Otherwise Engaged232Byron Nelson  \nCreativity and Commitment in Trevor Griffiths'sComedians243Austin E.Quigley  \nModest Proposals of Modern Socialists267Ruby Cohn  \nThe Politics of Anxiety:Contemporary SocialistTheatre in England282  \nC.W.E.Bigsby  \nTelevision Drama and the People's War:David Hare'sLicking Hitler,lan McEwan's The Imitation Game,andTrevor Griffiths's CountryRichard Johnstone  \nDe-realised Women:Performance and Identity inChurchill's Top GirlsJoseph Marohl  \nContents  \nRetreating to the Future:Brenton in the EightiesRichard Boon  \nA Select BibliographyCynthia Zimmerman  \nIndex  \nvii  \n323  \n338  \n344  \n# Dates of OriginalPublication\n\nPinter's Old Times:The Memory GameStephen MartineauFirst published in Modern Drama,16(December 1973),287-297.  \nRehearsal as Critical Method:Pinter's Old TimesLawrence I.EilenbergFirst published in Modern Drama,18(December 1975),385-392.  \nCinematic Fidelity and the Forms of Pinter's BetrayalEnoch BraterFirst published in Modern Drama,24(December 1981),503-513.  \n# The Spectator in Drama/Drama in the Spectator:Peter Shaffer'sEquus\n\nUna ChaudhuriFirst published inModern Drama,27(September 1984),281-298.  \nOn the Structure of Peter Shaffer's AmadeusWerner Huber and Hubert ZapfFirst published in Modern Drama,27(September 1984),299-313.  \n# The Political Spectrum of Edward Bond:From Rationalism to\n\nRhapsody  \nChristopher InnesFirst published in Modern Drama,25(June 1982),189-206.  \nBond's 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