Opera on the Beach
Introduction Apprenticeship of Sorts Paris Soho Einstein on the Beach The Music The Libretto Satyagraha The Music The Libretto Akhnaten The Music The Libretto Some Other Music
Faber and Faber
Reading Chaucer’s Poems
Introduction Chronology The Book of the Duchess (c. 1368) The House of Fame (c. 1379) The Parliament of Fowls (early 1380s?) Troilus and Criseyde (mid-1380s) Chaucers Wordes Unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn (mid/late 1380s) The Legend of Good Women (1386-7?) Truth: Balade de Bon Conseyl (late 1380s?) Lak of Stedfastnesse (late 1390s?) Lenvoy de Chaucer …
The Life and Work of Harold Pinter
Hackney Lad Romantic Ireland Baron Hardup Early Stages Playwright in Waiting Power Play Sexual Politics Family Values Private Worlds Time Regained Pinter’s Way States of Revolution Private Lives Voices from the Past Public Affairs Setting the Agenda Party Manners Moonlit Nights Festival Time Onwards and Upwards Memory Man
Almost a Gentleman
A Palpable Miss Camp Following May 8th ‘Take it Orfe’ ‘I Have a Go, Lady. I Do. I Have a Go’ Barwick’s Suit ‘All Russia is my Garden’ The October Bonfire Broadly Speaking American Panic ‘His own Worst Enemy’ ‘Not at his Best’ ‘Letting down England’ A Night to Remember Surprised by Joy Viva Mexico! …
A Better Class of Person
No Pride in Real Gentry Uncalled-for Remarks ‘I Don’t Want to End Up in a Dead-and-Alive Hole’ ‘A Better Class of Person’ O Wall! Bugger Bognor Too Young To Fight and Too Old to Forget Deathaboys Tomorrow, the Empire ‘Must Leave Now to Take Down the Front-room Curtains’ Hold the Front Page Kindly Leave the …
John Osborne: Plays 1
Introduction John Osborne, 1993
John Osborne: Plays 2
Introduction (from Almost a Gentleman) John Osborne
John Osborne: Plays 3
Introduction (reprinted from Almost a Gentleman) John Osborne
Richard Nelson: Plays 1
Introduction: Where These Plays Came From Richard Nelson