State of the Nation by Michael Billington

State of the Nation by Michael Billington

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State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 looks at post-war Britain from a theatrical perspective.

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State of the Nation by Michael Billington

State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 looks at post-war Britain from a theatrical perspective.
Michael Billington has been theatre critic of the Guardian since 1971 and of Country Life since 1986. He is the author of biographies of Harold Pinter (newly revised this year) and Peggy Ashcroft, of critical studies of Tom Stoppard and Alan Ayckbourn, of a celebration of Ken Dodd and a collection of reviews, One Night Stands. He has also edited Directors' Shakespeare: Twelfth Night and Stage and Screen Lives selected from the Dictionary of National Biography. He frequently lectures and broadcasts on the arts, teaches drama for the University of Pennsylvania and is a Visiting Professor at King's College, London and an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford.
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ISBN 13 9780571210497
ISBN 10 057121049X
Title State of the Nation
Author Michael Billington
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 2009-11-05
Number of pages 464
Prizes Winner of Theatre Book Prize 2007
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