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By persuasively locating Churchill's drama within the concerns of the British Left as they evolved from the optimistic 1960s to the fragmented present, Sian Adiseshiah uncovers the plays' political bedrock, which has been unfortunately obscured by successive waves of critical fashion. The result is a compelling reassessment of one of the world's leading playwrights in light of the political tradition she herself explicitly embraces. It is also an illuminating-if sobering-account of the fate of political theatre after the demise of collectivist politics. This book performs an essential correction and expansion of our understanding of Churchill's ambitious and principled drama. -Una Chaudhuri, Collegiate Professor, Professor of English and Drama, New York University

""By persuasively locating Churchill's drama within the concerns of the British Left as they evolved from the optimistic 1960s to the fragmented present, Sian Adiseshiah uncovers the plays' political bedrock, which has been unfortunately obscured by successive waves of critical fashion. The result is a compelling reassessment of one of the world's leading playwrights in light of the political tradition she herself explicitly embraces. It is also an illuminating—if sobering—account of the fate of political theatre after the demise of collectivist politics. This book performs an essential correction and expansion of our understanding of Churchill's ambitious and principled drama."" —Una Chaudhuri, Collegiate Professor, Professor of English and Drama, New York University

By persuasively locating Churchill's drama within the concerns of the British Left as they evolved from the optimistic 1960s to the fragmented present, Sian Adiseshiah uncovers the plays' political bedrock, which has been unfortunately obscured by successive waves of critical fashion. The result is a compelling reassessment of one of the world's leading playwrights in light of the political tradition she herself explicitly embraces. It is also an illuminating-if sobering-account of the fate of political theatre after the demise of collectivist politics. This book performs an essential correction and expansion of our understanding of Churchill's ambitious and principled drama. -Una Chaudhuri, Collegiate Professor, Professor of English and Drama, New York University

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Siân Adiseshiah is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln. Her research interests are in contemporary political drama, utopian studies, and gender theory, and she has published book chapters and journal articles in these fields.

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