Theatre in Britain: A Personal View
Broad personal history of British theatre and a useful overview of Hobson's critical perspective.
Author guide
Sir Harold Hobson (1904–1992) was an English theatre critic and author. He wrote for The Christian Science Monitor and The Sunday Times, where he became a leading drama critic and championed playwrights including Samuel Beckett, John Osborne, Harold Pinter, and Tom Stoppard. His books include theatre criticism, theatre history, biography, fiction, memoir, and journalism.
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Broad personal history of British theatre and a useful overview of Hobson's critical perspective.
Representative collection of Hobson's dramatic criticism.
His autobiography and the best entry point to his life and career.
Read in order
book-series · complete
A two-volume sequence of Harold Hobson's collected London theatre criticism.
Outside the series
theatre criticism · 1952
theatre history · 1953
theatre criticism · 1953
theatre history · 1953
theatre history · 1979
theatre history · 1984