David Hare

Auteur

Hersh Zeifman, is a professor at York University, Toronto

Texte du rabat

A collection of essays devoted to the work of arguably one of Britain's most provocative playwrights. This volume includes a chronology and a complete bibliography. It begins with an interview with Hare in which he discusses the whole sweep of his career, focusing particularly on his theatre trilogy of the 1990s. Following the interview are three essays that range widely over Hare's considerable body of work: 16 stage plays, eight theatrical collaborations and 11 screenplays for film and television. A further nine essays examine individual Hare plays and films, from his initial success, "Slag" (1970), to his most recent play "The Absence of War" (1993).

Résumé
Learning that David Hare has written sixteen stage plays, eight collaborations, and eleven screenplays for film and television, one might be surprised by the fact that this leading English artist is not yet fifty years old. He was only twenty-two when his first play was performed by the Portable Theatre, and he was a major voice on the British stage before he was thirty. The present volume is the first major collection of essays devoted to Hare, and its editor, Hersh Zeifman, who is a professor at York University, Toronto, is well-qualified to assemble and supervise such a significant undertaking. As co-editor of the prestigious journal, Modern Drama, he has been exposed to all the major authors and topics of modem theatre and is ideally positioned to discern Hare's pivotal role on the contemporary stage.

Contenu

General Editor's Note, Introduction, An Interview with David Hare, Rare Hare, Liking Women, Playing with Place: Some Filmic Techniques in the Plays of David Hare, Language and Values in Hare's Plays, (Re:)Defining the Assault: Hare's Juvenilia, Nostalgia for the Consensus in Knuckle and Teeth V Smiles, Fanshen: Hare and Brecht, Adapting the Model: Plenty and Licking Hitler, The Last Chopper Out: Saigon: Year of the Cat, Living the Present: The Bay at Nice and Wrecked Eggs, Virtuous Women: Portraits of Goodness in The Secret Rapture, Racing Demon, and Strapless, "Our Father": The Profession of Faith in Racing Demon, Playwright of Popular Dissent: David Hare and the Trilogy