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- Playwright David Edgar (born 26 February 1948) is a British playwright and writer who has had more than sixty of his plays published and performed on stage, radio and television around the world, making him one of the most prolific dramatists of the post-1960s generation in Great Britain.
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David Edgar (born 26 February 1948) is a British playwright and writer who has had more than sixty of his plays published and performed on stage, radio and television around the world, making him one of the most prolific dramatists of the post-1960s generation in Great Britain.
Outlining the intrinsic structural problems of dramatic action, it gives a vast range of examples from Shakespeare, Ibsen, Brecht et al, as well as contemporary playwrights. Edgar’s own works are used to illustrate certain issues, and his comments on these are, of course, especially illuminating.
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Jan 8, 2015 · Playwright David Edgar has been announced as this year's Humanitas Visiting Professor of Drama Studies at Oxford University. He will discuss the future of the playwright in a week-long series of talks and discussions next month.
David Edgar developed into a dramatist of impressive span and depth with plays such as Destiny (1976) and Pentecost (1994), his masterly response to the collapse of communism and rise of nationalism in eastern Europe.
David Edgar is a leading UK playwright, author of many original plays and adaptations. He also pioneered the teaching of playwriting in the UK, founding the Playwriting Studies course at Birmingham University in 1989.
David Edgar has written for radio, television and film. In 1989, he founded Britain's first graduate playwriting course, at the University of Birmingham. His book about playwriting, How Plays...
Oct 11, 2014 · We speak to Birmingham playwright, David Edgar, to discover his views on the complex relationship between the arts and the left.
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