Mary Luckhurst is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of York. Her publications include On Directing, On Acting and The Drama Handbook (with John Lennard), and she has co-edited Theatre and Celebrity in Britain 1660-2000. Her current projects include editing Blackwell's Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Drama, Blackwell's Companion to Contemporary Theatre, and a book on Caryl Churchill. She has written numerous articles on contemporary theatre for journals such as Contemporary Theatre Review. In addition to her academic research, Mary Luckhurst is also a playwright, dramaturg and director, and has most recently directed Caryl Churchill's Far Away at the York Theatre Royal.
Introduction
1. Lessing and the Hamburgische Dramaturgie
2. Dramaturgy in nineteenth-century England
3. William Archer and Harley Granville Barker: constructions of the literary manager
4. Bertolt Brecht: the theory and practice of the dramaturg
5. Kenneth Tynan and the National Theatre
6. Dramaturgy and literary management in England today
7. Conclusion.
