Innehåller bibbliografiska referenser och index.

Prologue: It matters / Edward Bond -- Early visions. Radical chic? Centre 42, the roundhouse and how culture countered Wesker in the 1960s / Lawrence Black -- Introducing Mr Howard Wesker / Graham Saunders -- Roots: a political poem / James Macdonald -- The enigma that is Pip: a character under construction in Wesker’s 'Chips with Everything' / John Bull -- Wesker’s flawed diamond: 'Their Very Own and Golden City' / Chris Megson -- Unifying Fragments. ‘Let Battle Commence!’: the Wesker controversies / Harry Derbyshire -- Representing Jewishness and antisemitism in Arnold Wesker’s work: 'Shylock', 'Badenheim 1939' and 'Blood Libel' / Sue Vice -- Wesker’s French connections / Anne Etienne -- Wesker the visual artist – ‘Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life!’ / Pamela Howard -- A charming rogue: Wesker’s relationship with women – and with himself / Michael Fry -- The idea of community in the plays of Arnold Wesker from 'The Kitchen' to 'Beorhtel’s Hill' / Robert Wilcher.

"Arnold Wesker was hailed in the press as ‘one of the great overlooked’ of British drama when he died in April 2016. Despite his pivotal engagement with the cultural politics of 1960s Britain and his international career, only a fraction of Wesker’s dramatic output tends to be studied. He is still remembered and discussed as the author of The Trilogy, three plays staged between 1958–60 that fail to reflect the daring aesthetics of his later work, thereby perpetuating an incorrect image of a naturalist playwright. This important new book aims to remedy the recent critical neglect of the dramatist, building on existing scholarship and introducing new insights and perspectives. It examines the whole body of Wesker’s work for the first time, including some of his non-dramatic work, and considers it from a variety of perspectives. These include Wesker’s reception in Europe, his Jewishness and his attitude to politics and to community. Significant use is made of material from the Arnold Wesker archive, held by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. /.../ It will be of most interest to academics and scholars of post-war British theatre, and to those teaching theatre and drama. It is accessible for a student readership at all undergraduate levels, as well as postgraduates. It has potential for textbook and reading list use. Wesker’s significance in British theatre history of the 1950s and 1960s means that the book may find readers amongst the informed general public."--Förlagsbeskrivning Intellect Books