The Secret Rapture

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The Secret Rapture | Historical Context

In a review of The Secret Rapture in American Theatre magazine, prominent London theatre critic Matt Wolf declared that the play was ‘‘directly inspired by the decade-old economic and moral climate of Margaret Thatcher’s Britain.’’ Though Hare’s intimate family drama draws much of its power and appeal from its complex characters and ultimately tragic plot, Wolf’s point is well made. The 1980s, both in David Hare’s Britain and in the United States, are now viewed as a period of greed, conservative politics, and negligent middle-class social policies, and The...

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