Lady Jane: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Edgar, David

Smith, A.C.H.

British & Irish

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

Business Strategy is a compact, plain-speaking textbook for those approaching strategy for the first time. Key features include: international case studies; chapters on current issues such as CSR, emerging markets and new technologies; hot topics: research project areas to investigate, and guru guides: bite-sized bios of key thinkers in the field.

Business Strategy: An Introduction

Business & Money

Stonehouse, George

Business Culture

Red Globe Press

This volume contains the best of David Edgar's work from the seventies
 The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs is an adaptation of the famous South African writer's diaries and deals with solitary confinement and loneliness - "a remarkable, persuasive picture." (Observer); Mary Barnes is based in a commune in the sixties and focuses on schizophrenia "promulgating the theory that schizophrenia can be effectively treated through behaviourist methods alone"; Saigon Rose tackles venereal disease and is "intriguing and entertaining...Edgar handles his themes - loss of innocence and a sense of betrayal - in a bitty, playful style laced with black comedy" (Independent); Oh Fair Jerusalem deals with the black death and Destiny deals with the loss of Empire and the rise of fascism in contemporary Britain "A play which astonished me with its intelligence, density, sympathy and finely controlled anger." Dennis Potter (Sunday Times).

Edgar Plays: 1: Jail Diary of Albie Sachs; Mary Barnes; Saigon Rose; O Fair Jerusalem; Destiny (Contemporary Dramatists)

Dramas & Plays

Methuen Drama

The production of this play established David Edgar as a major playwright, one of the most important of the young generation of dramatists to emerge out of the 'portable' theatre movement of the late sixties.

Destiny (Methuen's new theatrescripts ; no. 3)

EYRE METHUEN

Mary Barnes (A Methuen modern play)

Largely set against the background of a cholera epidemic in the 1850s, the play concerned a historically plausible but undocumented struggle between Henry Moule, the evangelical, teetotal parson of Dorchester's slum district, and Sarah Eldridge, the female founder of the local brewery.

ENTERTAINING STRANGERS (Methuen New Theatrescript)

Heinemann

DESTINY

Mary Barnes (Methuen Modern Plays)

METHUEN

"David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times" (Guardian)Nicholas Nickleby: "With uncommon audacity Nicholas Nickleby not only takes on Dickens' sprawling novel, it fractures all the petty limitations we have imposed upon the stage as well...A landmark" (New Statesman); In Entertaining Strangers, a community constructs a nativity play: "English left-wing social drama at its sturdiest and finest: human, argumentative, utterly unafraid of human realities, and seething with indignation and compassion" (Sunday Times) and Ecclesiastes, a radio play that looks at the rise and fall of a "fundamentalist" Christian clergyman in the US.

Edgar Plays: 2: Ecclesiastes, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Entertaining Strangers (Contemporary Dramatists)

"David Edgar, like Balzac, seems to be the secretary for our times" (Guardian) 
 Our Own People: "A courageous and intelligent discussion of race and industrial relations" (City Limits); Teendreams (written with Susan Todd of Monstrous Regiment theatre company) is about the failed revolutionary dreams of a set of teenagers. Maydays compares the phenomenon of post-war social rebellion from Western and Eastern perspectives; That Summer is an "elegantly tangential treatment of the 1984 miners' strike" (Plays and Players) "Edgar never lets his drama simplify into ideological diagram. . .This elegant, humane play keeps its emphasis on the. . .results that can ensue when diverse lives briefly brush against each other." (Independent)

Edgar Plays: 3: Teendreams; Our Own People; That Summer and Maydays (Contemporary Dramatists)

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