ABSTRACT
Dr. Rabey's profound critical study of David Rudkin's drama constitutes an in-depth evaluation of this unique dramatist, re-assessed in the light of his bi-sexuality and Anglo-Irish origins.
This key study includes insights from noted performers of Rudkin's work, including Ian Hogg, Peter McEnery, Ian McDiarmid, Gerard Murphy, and Charlotte Cornwell. It is a fully authorized study with exclusive reference to archival material which includes some frank and urgent interview contributions from the dramatist himself, who is usually deemed reclusive. It is enhanced by Dr. Rabey's own experience of Wales, Ireland, and the English Black Country for his exposition of Rudkin's mythic sense of Celtic and Mercian history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |14 pages
Introduction: To Blazing Point
chapter |13 pages
Locate, Separate, Eliminate
No Accounting for Taste, Afore Night Come, the Stone Dance, Children Playing, the Grace of Todd, Gear Change, Sun into Darkness, Blodwen, Home from Rachel's Marriage
chapter |16 pages
Mind-Forged Manacles and Demonic Release
Moses and Aaron, House of Character/No Title, Fahrenheit 451, the Dybbuk, Burglars, Sabbatai Zevi
chapter |18 pages
Stolen Future, Discarded Self
Cape Wrath, Cries from Casement as His Bones Are Brought to Dublin, Bypass, Atrocity, the Filth Hunt, the Man Who Stole Children, Ashes
chapter |10 pages
A Sense of Place
Penda's Fen, Pritân, the Coming of the Cross, Sovereignty under Elizabeth
chapter |16 pages
Sublime Monstrosity
Hecuba: Queen into Darkness, the Golem, across the Water, Peer Gynt, the Saxon Shore
chapter |17 pages
Transforming Transgressions
Deathwatch, the Maids, When We Dead Waken, Rosmersholm, Testimony, Stone Virgin, Fiend My Brother, December Bride, Day of Atonement, Gawain and the Green Knight, Fire from the Womb, Farewell Dresden
chapter |15 pages
Work in Process
Hansel and Gretel, Will's Way, Space Invaders, White Lady, John Piper in the House of Death, the Lovesong of Alfred J. Hitchcock, the Fool of the World
