CiNii Books - Essays on politics and literature

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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Literature and politics
the political in Britain's two national theatres
young writers of the thirties
Koestler's Koestler
Hannah Arendt - hedgehog or fox?
Beatrice Webb as English diarist
words
my LSE
reading "The Observer" as a complex text
on the difficulties of writing biography and of Orwell's in particular
reading "Nineteen Eighty-Four" as satire
"Animal Farm" for schools
Orwell and English socialism
on the Orwell trail
Wedekind's "Spring Awakening" Horvath's "Tales From the Vienna Woods"
Pinter's "No Man's Land"
Polly by gaslight
Edgar Catches Jenkins' ear at the Barbican
Barrault at the Barbican.

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