Peter Shaffer: Theatre and Drama.(Review)

The Modern Language Review | January 1, 2000| | Copyright

Peter Shaffer: Theatre and Drama. By MADELEINE MACMURRAGH-KAVANAGH. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1998. xiii + 208 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling].

Sheridan Morley wrote that Peter Shaffer 'has always been able, even in the heart of the commercial theatre jungle, to engage an audience in adult and literate debate about the way we live now' (quoted on page 161). This assessment underestimates the importance of subsidized theatre in Shaffer's career, but does lay a trail for defining the relationship between his popular success, his critical reputation, ...

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