Harold Hobson: Witness and Judge - Hardcover

Shellard, Dominic

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1853311545 ISBN 13: 9781853311543

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

This book is the first objective analysis of the writing of a post-war British theatre critic, the first biography of one of the most significant figures of twentieth-century British theatre and a lively evaluation of Harold Hobson's contribution to the evolution of contemporary British theatre.
The earliest and most passionate champion of Samuel Beckett in the UK and the critic who discovered Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party, Hobson wrote about theatre from 1927 to 1988, and is best known for his articles as the theatre critic of The Sunday Times between 1947 and 1976. Dominic Shellard uses interviews with Hobson himself, other critics and prominent theatrical figures to add fuel to his argument that, in addition to the triumvirate of playwright, actor and director, the theatre critic is also essential to the theatrical process.
The book begins with Hobson's earliest writing for the Christian Science Monitor, from 1929 to 1939. It goes on to examine his output during the war years, when his skill as a social historian became apparent, his apprenticeship to the controversial James Agate and his promotion to the post of Sunday Times critic in 1947. Hobson's struggle for ascendancy over the younger critic of the Observer, Kenneth Tynan, in the 1950s and his devotion to Absurdist theatre are thoroughly analysed, as is his complex attitude to the embryonic national Theatre, the battles against censorship and the new wave of British theatre.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1853311545
• ISBN 13: 9781853311543
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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