Michael Billington

Broschiertes Buch

The 101 Greatest Plays

From Antiquity to the Present

Beschreibung

Having surveyed post-war British drama in State of the Nation, Michael Billington now looks at the global picture. In this provocative and challenging new book, he offers his highly personal selection of the 101 greatest plays ranging from the Greeks to the present-day.

Autor

Michael Billington has been theatre critic of the Guardian since 1971 and of Country Life since 1986. He is the author of biographies of Harold Pinter and Peggy Ashcroft, critical studies of Tom Stoppard and Alan Ayckbourn, of a celebration of Ken Dodd, a collection of reviews, One Night Stands, State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945, which won the Theatre Book Prize 2008, and The 101 Greatest Plays: From Antiquity to the Present. He has also edited Directors' Shakespeare: Twelfth Night and Stage and Screen Lives selected from the Dictionary of National Biography. He frequently lectures and broadcasts on the arts, teaches drama for the University of Pennsylvania and is a Visiting Professor at King's College, London and an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guardian Faber Publishing
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 131mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781783350315
• ISBN-10: 1783350318
• Artikelnr.: 44720155