Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of" Modern
British Playwriting" series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the
theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to 2009 in six volumes. Each
volume features a critical analysis and reevaluation of the work of four key
playwrights from that decade authored by a team of experts, together with an
extensive commentary on the period ."Modern British Playwriting: The 1950s"
provides an authoritative and stimulating reassessment of the theatre of the
decade together with a detailed study of the work of T.S Eliot (by Sarah
Bay-Cheng), Terence Rattigan (David Pattie), John Osborne (Luc Gilleman) and
Arnold