David Hare: plays two

This second volume of plays by David Hare contains work from the 1970s and 1980s which confirmed him as one of the major contemporary playwrights in the English language. It includesFanshen, his remarkable 1975 play which focused on the Chinese Revolution with Brechtian subtlety, his screenplay forSaigon: Year of the Cat, The Secret Rapture, his biting portrait of a family in crisis, and the playsA Map of the WorldandThe Bay at Nice. The collection is introduced by the author.