The Plays of Margaret Drabble: A Critical Edition

187 Pages·2019·9.804 MB·English

by  Fernández, José Francisco(Editor)

The Plays of Margaret Drabble

The Plays of
Margaret Drabble
a Cr itiCa l e dition
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Edited by
José Francisco Fernández
Syracuse University Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Drabble, Margaret, 1939– author. |Fernández, José Francisco, editor. |
Drabble, Margaret, 1939– Laura. | Drabble, Margaret, 1939– Bird of paradise.
Title: The plays of Margaret Drabble : a critical edition / edited by José Francisco
Fernández.
Other titles: Plays
Description: First edition. | Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press,
2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018038149 (print) | LCCN 2018051489 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780815654568 (E-book) | ISBN 9780815636052 (hardcover : alk. paper)
| ISBN 9780815636113 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Classification: LCC PR6054.R25 (ebook) | LCC PR6054.R25 2018 (print) |
DDC 822/.914—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018038149
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Introduction
José franCisCo fernández 1
Part one. The Plays
Laura 9
Bird of Paradise 49
Part two. Critical Commentary
The Presence of Theater in the Life of the Novelist
José franCisCo fernández 75
Laura: Historical Context
José franCisCo fernández 90
Bird of Paradise: Historical Context
betsabé navarro 100
The Plays and Early Novels: Intersections
ángela rivera izquierdo 116
Margaret Drabble and British Drama of the Late
1950s and the 1960s
germán asensio Peral 133
vi | Contents
Margaret Drabble’s Laura and Television
in Britain in the 1960s
veróniCa membrive Pérez 148
Timeline 165
Essential Bibliography 169
Contributors 171
Index 173
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Illustrations
1. Margaret Drabble rehearsing on stage, Cambridge, 1959 76
2. Margaret Drabble rehearsing on stage, Cambridge, 1959 91
3. Margaret Drabble rehearsing on stage, Cambridge, 1959 117
4. Margaret Drabble rehearsing on stage, Cambridge, 1959 134
5. Margaret Drabble in her final year at Cambridge, 1959 149
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The Plays of Margaret Drabble