The Secret Rapture (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Eyre, Richard, Utopia and Other Places, Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd., 1993.

  Richard Eyre was the artistic director of Britain’s Royal National Theatre from 1988 to 1997. He directed several of Hare’s plays at the National during that time. This autobiographical collection of essays includes Eyre’s thoughts on actors and the theatre, British politics, and the importance of social class in England.

• Homden, Carol, The Plays of David Hare, Cambridge University Press, 1995.

  This analysis of selected plays and films by David Hare, including his trilogy Racing Demon(1990), Murmuring Judges(1991), and The Absence of War (1992), suggests that Hare is one of the leading playwrights of Britain’s post-World War II generation.

• Kerensky, Oleg, The New British Drama: Fourteen Playwrights since Osborne and Pinter, Taplinger Publishing Company, 1977.

  This book is a survey of Britain’s emerging new playwrights in the late 1960s and 1970s, including David Hare, Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Howard Brenton, Peter Shaffer, Tom Stoppard, and others.

• Oliva, Judy Lee, David Hare: Theatricalizing Politics, ProQuest UMI, 1990.

  This comprehensive analysis of more than twenty of Hare’s plays, television scripts, and films pays special attention to how the playwright’s selection of content and style create a critique of politics and British society.

• Page, Malcolm, comp., File on Hare, Methuen Drama, 1990.

  This collection of excerpted criticism of Hare’s plays, taken largely from theatre reviews in London and New York newspapers and magazines, also includes a chronology of Hare’s work.

• Zeifman, Hersh, ed., David Hare: A Casebook, Garland Publishing, 1994.

  This collection of essays about Hare’s most important plays is accompanied by a chronology of his work and a bibliography of Hare interviews and criticism.