{"title":"Philip Roberts","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"pravda-book-philip-roberts-9781472574770","title":"Pravda","description":"The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart, and democracy itself cannot function.   Pravda (which means \"truth\") is a satire written at the height of Thatcherism when huge political changes were afoot. The play essentially studies, through black humour and close scrutiny, the tabloid ethic and the media industry as a get-rich-quick-fix.   In the programme for the original 1985 production of Pravda, Brenton wrote: \"Pravda means 'the truth'. English newspapers aren't propaganda sheets. The question is, why do so many of them choose to behave as if they are?\"  The character of Lambert Le Roux is a South African newspaper tycoon and the owner of several companies, striding his way through the regional papers en route to Fleet Street. Turning broadsheets tabloid, dumbing down the message, and stretching the truth, Le Roux takes no prisoners as he manipulates politicians and creates a media monopoly out of a once-respected industry.  Le Roux is bent on dominating England's press as he has elsewhere in the world. As we see Le Roux accomplish his aims, we see also how the press is not the organ of truth we like to think it is. The dissemination of the truth is no longer its primary goal under the 'Lambert Le Rouxs' of our world. What is important now is what sells.  The play is an epic satire on the media in the Thatcher era; a morality tale about how Andrew, a young liberal journalist, finally succumbs to Le Roux, who makes him editor of a tabloid; and – allegedly – the play is a direct representation of Rupert Murdoch who, even in 1985, was a major force in media ownership.   Howard Brenton's and David Hare's first collaboration since Brassneck in 1973, Pravda was premiered at the National Theatre in May 1985, starring Anthony Hopkins and directed by David Hare, and was awarded the London Standard Best Play Award, the City Limits Best Play Award, and the Plays and Players Best Play Award.  This Modern Classics edition features an introduction by Philip Roberts, Emeritus Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds, and a foreword by Jonathan Church.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49587220644113,"sku":"GOR006811978","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51028350271761,"sku":"NIN9781472574770","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52141607452945,"sku":"NLS9781472574770","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/147257477X.jpg?v=1751461219"},{"product_id":"bond-book-philip-roberts-9780413470607","title":"Bond","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Democracy and International Conflict, James Lee Ray defends the idea, so optimistically advanced by diplomats in the wake of the Soviet Union's demise and so hotly debated by international relations scholars, that democratic states do not initiate war against one another and therefore offer an avenue to universal peace. Ray acknowledges that despite persuasive theoretical arguments and empirical evidence in favor of this idea, the democratic peace proposition is susceptible to attack on three points: the statistical rarity of both international wars and democracies; the difficulty in defining democracy; and the vulnerability of democratic regimes. To confront these criticisms, Ray offers a systematic analysis of regime transitions and a workable definition of democracy as well as careful scrutiny of cases in which democracies averted international conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49654054813969,"sku":"GOR002429182","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52582396920081,"sku":"GOR002716518","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0413470601.jpg?v=1751390958"},{"product_id":"royal-court-theatre-and-the-modern-stage-book-philip-roberts-9780521479622","title":"The Royal Court Theatre and the Modern Stage","description":"The Royal Court Theatre is one of the primary forums in the development of post-war drama. Under the title of the English Stage Company the theatre's house actors and dramatists commissioned and produced some of the most influential plays in modern theatre history, including the works of Brenton, Churchill, Bond and Osborne. The story of the Royal Court is also the history of the contemporary stage. In this absorbing account of the theatre's history from 1956 to 1998, Philip Roberts draws on previously unpublished archives in both public and private collections and a series of interviews with people prominent in the Court's life. The book also includes a Foreword by the former Director of the Royal Court,  Max Stafford-Clark. The result is an intimate account of the working of the foremost house of modern drama and its relationships to the world of the theatre in Britain and abroad.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50477763363089,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50477764968721,"sku":"GOR005125919","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52594921079057,"sku":"NLS9780521479622","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0521479622.jpg?v=1751103566"},{"product_id":"ruraling-education-research-book-philip-roberts-9789811601330","title":"Ruraling Education Research","description":"This edited volume brings together a collection of chapters from leading scholars in rural education with the purpose of linking knowledge from the rural education field to the wider discipline of education studies. Through addressing significant issues in the rural education field, the book gives insights from rural education that have general relevance for the wider disciplines of education, and provides up-to-date scholarship in research in rural contexts.  This book aims to be a definitive and comprehensive edition of contemporary rural education scholarship that works as a guide for those new to researching in and for rural contexts, as well as actively expand the other sub-fields of education from a rural perspective. It examines the connection between rurality and the other domains of educational research, exploring what a rural perspective might bring to the broader fields of educational research, and how it might evolve them. In its unique approach, this book brings the concept of ‘rural’ to the disciplines of education; chapters regarding the ethics of research in the rural context speaks to a gap in rural education, and provide tools for engaging marginalised communities more generally in educational research.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52453573067025,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52453573493009,"sku":"NLS9789811601330","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789811601330.jpg?v=1759368408"},{"product_id":"royal-court-theatre-routledge-revivals-book-philip-roberts-9781138856752","title":"The Royal Court Theatre (Routledge Revivals)","description":"The English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre is the longest running specialist production organization in the history of British theatre. Philip Roberts’s account, which was first published in 1986, covers the period 1965-1972 in the Company’s life, beginning in 1965 with the appointment of William Gaskill as Artistic Director. It is not simply about the critical triumphs of these years of the Royal Court’s work, but also about the day-to-day workings of a busy and often turbulent organization. The result of the book is both scholarly and entertaining. This book will be of interest to students of the theatre and drama.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52487385678097,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52487386398993,"sku":"NLS9781138856752","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781138856752.jpg?v=1759860749"},{"product_id":"royal-court-theatre-routledge-revivals-book-philip-roberts-9781138856721","title":"The Royal Court Theatre (Routledge Revivals)","description":"The English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre is the longest running specialist production organization in the history of British theatre. Philip Roberts’s account, which was first published in 1986, covers the period 1965-1972 in the Company’s life, beginning in 1965 with the appointment of William Gaskill as Artistic Director. It is not simply about the critical triumphs of these years of the Royal Court’s work, but also about the day-to-day workings of a busy and often turbulent organization. The result of the book is both scholarly and entertaining. This book will be of interest to students of the theatre and drama.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52487589953809,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52487590740241,"sku":"NLS9781138856721","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781138856721.jpg?v=1759861165"},{"product_id":"royal-court-theatre-and-the-modern-stage-book-philip-roberts-9780521474382","title":"The Royal Court Theatre and the Modern Stage","description":"The Royal Court Theatre is one of the primary forums in the development of post-war drama. Under the title of the English Stage Company the theatre's house actors and dramatists commissioned and produced some of the most influential plays in modern theatre history, including the works of Brenton, Churchill, Bond and Osborne. The story of the Royal Court is also the history of the contemporary stage. In this absorbing account of the theatre's history from 1956 to 1998, Philip Roberts draws on previously unpublished archives in both public and private collections and a series of interviews with people prominent in the Court's life. The book also includes a Foreword by the former Director of the Royal Court,  Max Stafford-Clark. The result is an intimate account of the working of the foremost house of modern drama and its relationships to the world of the theatre in Britain and abroad.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52584232812817,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52584233599249,"sku":"NLS9780521474382","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780521474382.jpg?v=1761049444"},{"product_id":"ruraling-education-research-book-philip-roberts-9789811601309","title":"Ruraling Education Research","description":"Ruraling education research.- Framing rural and remote: Key issues, debates, definitions and positions in constructing rural and remote disadvantage.- Rural social space: A conceptual-analytical framework for rural.- (Teacher) education and the rural human services.- Exploring the interplay of the 'Rural' and 'Community' in and for teacher education research.- The rural community walk: A structured learning experience for understanding place.- Using rural frameworks and research to develop understandings of educational justice and equity across socio-spatial settings.- Charter schools and the reconfiguring of the rural school-community Connection.- Erasing rurality: On the need to disaggregate statistical data.- Pathways, principals, and place.- Can boarding be better? Ethical dilemmas for policy-makers, education providers and evidence-makers.- Using rural education research to rethink literacies pedagogies.- How can rural education research make inclusive education better?- Linguistic landscape methodologies in rural education and educational research.- Dancing koalas, burning books and 'fair game': Using Butler's concept of performativity to examine rural gender performances.- Harnessing social capital in rural education research to promote aspiration and participation in learning.- The invisible cohort: Remote students' engagement and success in higher education.- The politics of ethics in rural social research: A cautionary tale.- Valuing the rural: Using an ethical lens to explore the impact of defining, doing and disseminating rural education research.- People, places, and communities in an urban century: Broadening rural education research.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52587226038545,"sku":"NLS9789811601309","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789811601309.jpg?v=1761055938"},{"product_id":"ultimate-canada-driver-s-handbook-book-philip-roberts-9798307149058","title":"The Ultimate Canada Driver's Handbook","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52607800246545,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52607800508689,"sku":"GOR014562391","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9798307149058.jpg?v=1761317828"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-philip-roberts.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}