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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Doris Lessing | At this time Lessing's friends included a number of writers: Ruth Fainlight
and Alan Sillitoe
, Arnold Wesker
and his wife Diski, Jenny. “Doris and Me”. London Review of Books, Vol. 37 , No. 1, 8 Jan. 2015, pp. 21-3. 21 |
Friends, Associates | Ann Jellicoe | George Devine
, who co-directed her own first play with her, was a strong supporter, and included her in a group of young dramatists he fostered, such as John Arden
, Wole Soyinka
, and Arnold Wesker
. Coveney, Michael, and David Edgar. “Ann Jellicoe obituary”. theguardian.com, 1 Sept. 2017. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Louise Page | At thirteen, profoundly affected by a Saturday matinee of John McGrath
's Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun and by the idea that theatre can change people's lives, she decided to be a playwright. Page, Louise. “Tissue”. Plays by Women: Volume One, edited by Michelene Wandor and Michelene Wandor, Methuen, 1982, pp. 75-103. 103 |
Literary responses | Shelagh Delaney | The race issue received astonishingly little attention from reviewers, probably because SD
was so far ahead of her time in acknowledging its existence. However, Colin MacInnes
(himself homosexual and author of the novel City of... |
Literary responses | Lesley Storm | The play received rave reviews in England. The reviewer for the Times wrote: The Dialogue is consistently neat and pointed, and tense situations open smoothly into situations yet more tense; the Evening News... |
Occupation | Ann Jellicoe | AJ
had a long-standing professional relationship with the Royal Court Theatre
. Around the time her play The Sport of My Mad Mother was performed at the Court, she became involved in the newly formed... |
Textual Production | Maureen Duffy | In the five years after university she completed three stage plays and counted herself one of a group of playwrights connected with the Royal Court Theatre
, which included John Arden
, Edward Bond
,... |
Textual Production | Meiling Jin | MJ
has produced her own play, Where the Bee Sucks (titled from a speech of Ariel in the last act of Shakespeare
's The Tempest), and has worked on a radio soap opera set... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Michelene Wandor | In its original form, says Greenhalgh, this book reflects MW
's roles as playwright, reviewer, and Leavisite
student of English literature. Greenhalgh, Susanne. “A Review of Post-War British Drama: Looking Back in Gender by Michelene Wandor”. Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 13 , No. 1, 2003, pp. 125-6. 125 |