Essays on Politics and Literature

Bernard Crick

Published by Edinburgh University Press 1990

Essays on Politics and Literature

Bernard Crick

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748672615

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This lively collection of essays gives a non-technical, but profound analysis of the essential relationship between politics and literature. Bernard Crick shows how 'political theatre' is often both bad theatre and simplistic politics, but how good producers can bring out political messages in such seemingly 'unpolitical' dramas as Twelfth Night.

The essays begin with general themes, including a vigorous critique of RSC and NT producers' views of the political, and a denial of the myth that the far left dominated 1930s writing. They then move on to an analysis of George Orwell and finally to celebrate specific occasions and events in modern British theatre.

With his refreshing disrespect for over-ornate and overly scholastic Marxist and academic writers, Professor Crick's book will be of interest to all those concerned with the arts and the theatre, as well as political philosophers and English literature students.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Foreword David Daiches Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
One Literature and Politics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Two The Political in Britain’s Two National Theatres Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
Three Young Writers of the Thirties Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Four Koestler’s Koestler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
Five Hannah Arendt: Hedgehog or Fox? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Six Beatrice Webb as English Diarist Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Seven Words Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Eight My LSE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Nine Reading The Observer as a complex text Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
Ten On the Difficulties of Writing Biography in General and of Orwell’s in particular Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Eleven Reading Nineteen Eighty-Four As Satire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Twelve Animal Farm For Schools Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
Thirteen Orwell and English Socialism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Fourteen On the Orwell Trail Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Fifteen Wedekind’s ‘Spring Awakening’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Sixteen Horvath’s ‘Tales From the Vienna Woods’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Seventeen Pinter’s ‘No Man’s Land’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Eighteen Polly By Gaslight Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Nineteen David Edgar Catches Peter Jenkins’ Ear at the Barbican Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Twenty Barrault at the Barbican Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 238
Keywords: Politics

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Published: June 7, 2022
ISBN: 9780748672615