About Kane: The Playwright and the Work

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Faber & Faber, 2009 - Drama - 184 pages
Graham Saunders offers an important study of one of the most controversial and talented playwrights of recent times. His survey includes a concise biography, in-depth analysis of Sarah Kane's work, and interviews with Kane and those who helped to put her work on stage.

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About the author (2009)

Graham Saunders lectures in Theatre Studies at the University of Reading. He is author of Love me or Kill me: Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes (Manchester: MUP, 2002) and a series editor for Continuum's Modern Theatre Guides. He has contributed articles on contemporary British and Irish drama to journals including Modern Drama, Journal of Beckett Studies, Contemporary Theatre Review, Theatre Research International, New Theatre Quarterly and Studies in Theatre and Performance. He is currently completing a co-edited collection entitled Cool Britannia? British Political Theatre in the 1990s for Palgrave and a short monograph study of Patrick Marber's play Closer for Continuum Press.

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