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After his death, Arnold Wesker (1932–2016) was hailed as one of the great overlooked figures of British drama. Despite his engagement in British cultural politics of the 1960s and an international career, only a fraction of Wesker’s dramatic output has been thoroughly studied.  Edited by leading scholars in the field and with contributions from important scholars of postwar theater, this volume considers, for the first time, the whole body of Wesker’s work. It includes chapters on Wesker’s reception in Europe, his representation of and attitude towards women, his relationship to his Jewish origins and identity, and his attitude toward politics and community. Building on existing scholarship, drawing extensively from the Arnold Wesker archive at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and introducing new insights and perspectives, this important new essay collection remedies the recent critical neglect of the dramatist.

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Arnold Wesker: Fragments and Visions will add significantly to the body of scholarship on this important and sometimes neglected dramatist. -- Stephen Lacey, emeritus professor of drama, film and television, Faculty of Creative Industries, University of South Wales 'Arnold Wesker: Fragments and Visions will add significantly to the body of scholarship on this important and sometimes neglected dramatist.' -- Stephen Lacey, Emeritus Professor, Drama, Film and Television, Faculty of Creative Industries, University of South Wales

Arnold Wesker will add significantly to the body of scholarship on this important and sometimes neglected dramatist. --Stephen Lacey, University of South Wales

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Anne Etienne is a lecturer in modern and contemporary drama at University College Cork. Her research is concerned with theatre censorship, contemporary Irish theatre and Arnold Wesker. Graham Saunders is the Allardyce Nicoll Professor of Theatre at the University of Birmingham. His research is directed at British theatre since 1945, as well as the drama of Samuel Beckett.

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