Steven Berkoff and the Theatre of

Steven Berkoff is a playwright, director and actor largely disregarded by theater scholars. Since the 1960s, however, this notorious Cockney enfant terrible and "scourge of the Shakespeare industry" has left an imprint on modern British theatre that has been as impossible to ignore as his in-your-face stage presence. Steven Berkoff and the Theatre of Self-Performance, the first thorough and in-depth study of this contentious artist, examines the wide-ranging strategies adopted by Berkoff in the construction and projection of his larger-than-life public persona.

Robert Cross is Professor at the Institute for Language and Culture at Doshisha University, Kyoto.

LIST OF FIGURES	viii
PREFACE	ix
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	xi
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS	xiii
INTRODUCTION	1	(20)
1 Jewish East End roots	21	(30)
2 Berkoff's interpersonal 'self'	51	(29)
3 The London Theatre Group	80	(27)
4 Confinement and escapology	107	(25)
5 Berkoff's Cockney carnival	132	(26)
6 Berkoff and Thatcherism	158	(27)
7 Berkoff's 'inner self'	185	(24)
Conclusions	209	(12)
REFERENCES	221	(12)
INDEX	233

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