Twentieth Century British Drama - Cambridge Contexts in Literature

Twentieth Century British Drama

Author/s: John Smart

Looking back on 20th century British drama from its' historical, social and political perspective enables the reader to set each play in a broader context.

Contents include a selection of play extracts from well-known authors including Harold Brighouse, John Osborne, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard and Timberlake Wertenbaker.

Features:

• Each title includes a wide-ranging yet carefully levelled introductory discussion of a literary period, genre or theme, to provide students with an excellent introduction to an area of literature.
• Helps students to address the new assessment objective 4 ('demonstrate understanding of the significance and influence of the contexts in which literary texts are written and received') - worth up to 35% of the A level qualification under new guidelines.
• Discussion questions and end-of-section tasks offer an invaluable resource for self study as well as helpful exam preparation.
• A mini-anthology of texts and extracts saves teachers time searching for appropriate 'wider reading' texts.