Foreword Trevor Nunn Preface Companies, Theatres and Players Greene, Peele, Chapman and Kyd Christopher Marlowe Middleton, Dekker, Marston and Tourneur Beaumont and Fletcher, Webster, Ford, and Massinger Ben Jonson The Plays of Christopher Marlowe Bloody Revenge and Tragedy Comedies Drama Documentaries The Plays of Ben Jonson The Place of Women Plays for Today Epilogue Table …
Introduction G. S. Fraser George Campbell Hay Maurice Lindsay W. S. Graham Derick Thomson Alastair Mackie Burns Singer Stewart Conn Douglas Dunn Tom Leonard Liz Lochhead Valerie Gillies
The rescued falcon (the story is told from the perspective of Bran, a falconer’s son) King Arthur and Sir Lancelot The Great Hall The Knights of the Round Table The adventure begins The Black Knight’s tree A spell is cast Sir Lancelot to the rescue The hermit in the forest In Camelot
A note on accents Brief Life Sources and Influences The Leeds Plays The Independence Plays Plays of the Sixties A Post-War Play Plays of Exile Plays for Nigeria of the Seventies and Eighties A Play of Giants
Introduction Adrian Mitchell
From Kinlochleven to Muskegon American Opportunities British Leyland: the Disease British Steel: the Cure Coal: War is Declared The First Skirmishes Battle Commences The Second Front Economic Warfare Peace Moves Where Are the Reinforcements? NACODS Enter the Fray The Battle for the Media Desertions in Scargill’s Army Laying the Final Trap