The Cambridge Companion to David Hare

David Hare is not only one of the most important post‐war British dramatists, he is also among the most prolific writers in any medium. Hare has been active not just as a playwright but as a director, journalist, public speaker, actor, even an opera librettist, and has worked for television and film in addition to the stage. Conveying and assessing the breadth of this man's achievement is a tall order. However, and although the gestation of this book pre‐dates Hare's direction of The Year of Magical Thinking and at least two other projects, Richard Boon has made a conscientious and...