Alan Ayckbourn (Critical Survey of Drama)
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Alan Ayckbourn is known primarily for his plays.
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A farceur of contemporary suburbia, Alan Ayckbourn enjoys distinction not only as a prolific writer of entertaining, well-made plays during a stage revolution when the pièce bien faite was out of fashion but also as a dramatist who, beginning in 1959, has averaged one play a year, claiming to have surpassed even William Shakespeare in the sheer quantity of plays written by the...
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