Post-Colonial English Drama: Commonwealth Drama since 1960

King, Bruce

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1993-02-12

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349224388

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22436-4

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 275