In the last 30 years, David Hare has written 12 stage plays, seven screenplays and one opera, and has gained international attention as one of Britain's major contemporary playwrights. Hare's prominence springs not only from the sheer volume of his work, but from his long career of chronicling the social and political fragmentation in postwar Britain. This is the first work to demystify the implications of Hare's presentation of the moral and political health of the British nation. Arguing that one needs to have a deeply informed sense of English and British identity and postwar British society in order to understand Hare's work, Donesky thoroughly contextualizes and historicizes Hare's work. This study demonstrates how Hare's seemingly enigmatic moral vision is actually characteristic of the attitudes of Britain's governing classes.
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“Like John Osborne a generation earlier, Hare is a significant British playwright who rails passionately against a stultifying social situation he also defends....Donesky places the plays in the social context of England with remarkable thoroughness and shows how Hare's characters move from identification with a moral consensus experienced duting WW II, to a more personal concern with 'soul' during the ascendancy of Prime Minister Thatcher, to a role in preserving the key British institutions of church, law, and government....The writing dealing with Hare and his time is exemplary...Donesky has produced a first-rate critical examination of an important playwright.”–Choice
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FINLAY DONESKY is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Kentucky.
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- The Secret Rapture: A Play by David Hare on 32 pages
- Dreams of Leaving by David Hare on 23 pages
- A Map of the World by David Hare on 15 pages
- Murmuring Judges by David Hare on 11 pages
- Film : Paris By Night by David Hare on 7 pages
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- The Theatre Team: Playwright, Producer, Director, Designers, and Actors (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies) by Sidney Berger in Front Matter
- Ibsen and Early Modernist Theatre, 1890-1900 (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies) by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr in Front Matter
- Voltaire and the Theatre of the Eighteenth Century (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies: Lives of the Theatre) by Marvin A. Carlson in Back Matter
- Comedy in the Weimar Republic: A Chronicle of Incongruous Laughter (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies) by William Grange in Front Matter
- Tony Pastor Presents: Afterpieces from the Vaudeville Stage (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies) by Susan Kattwinkel in Front Matter
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