The Cambridge Companion to David Hare (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Cambridge University Press, 12/13/2007
EAN 9780521850544, ISBN10: 0521850541

Hardcover, 288 pages, 23.4 x 15.8 x 2.4 cm
Language: English

David Hare is one of the most important playwrights to have emerged in the UK in the last forty years. This volume examines his stage plays, television plays and cinematic films, and is the first book of its kind to offer such comprehensive and up-to-date critical treatment. Contributions from leading academics in the study of modern British theatre sit alongside those from practitioners who have worked closely with Hare throughout his career, including former Director of the National Theatre Sir Richard Eyre. Uniquely, the volume also includes a chapter on Hare's work as journalist and public speaker; a personal memoir by Tony Bicât, co-founder with Hare of the enormously influential Portable Theatre; and an interview with Hare himself in which he offers a personal retrospective of his career as a film maker which is his fullest and clearest account of that work to date.

Chronology
Directing work
Introduction Richard Boon
Part I. Text and Context
1. Portable Theatre
'fine detail, rough theatre'. A personal memoir Tony Bicât
2. Keeping turning up
Hare's early career Richard Boon
3. In opposition
Hare's response to Thatcherism Lib Taylor
4. Hare's trilogy at the National
private moralities and the common good Les Wade
5. Hare's 'stage poetry', 1995–2002 Duncan Wu
6. 'Stopping for lunch'
the political theatre of David Hare Peter Ansorge
Part II. Working with Hare
7. Hare in collaboration
writing dialogues Cathy Turner
8. Acting Hare
The Permanent Way Bella Merlin
9. Directing Hare Richard Eyre
Part III. Hare on Screen
10. 'Being taken no notice of in ten million homes'
David Hare's adventures in television John Bull
11. Hare on film
an interview Richard Boon
Part IV. Overviews of Hare
12. 'To ask how things might have been otherwise…'
history and memory in the work of David Hare Steve Nicholson
13. Performing histories
Plenty and A Map of the World Janelle Reinelt
14. 'Marbled with doubt'
satire, reality and the alpha male in the plays of David Hare Michael Mangan
15. 'Theatre and anti-theatre'
David Hare and public speaking Chris Megson and Dan Rebellato.