ABSTRACT
In Chapter 1 I touched on the relationship between regulatory discourse and ‘serious drama’. In this chapter I will take the analysis of radical authorship and regulatory discourses further, expanding on work by John Caughie who makes a number of valuable points about the political importance of ‘authored’ drama. These have mainly to do with its historical associations: with naturalism, with the theatre, and with contemporary social events. In the following three chapters I will take up each of these theoretical issues within an ethnography of production.
