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    A Study Guide for Caryl Churchill's "Light Shining in Buckinghamshire"
    A Study Guide for Caryl Churchill's "Light Shining in Buckinghamshire"
    A Study Guide for Caryl Churchill's "Light Shining in Buckinghamshire"
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    A Study Guide for Caryl Churchill's "Light Shining in Buckinghamshire"

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    A Study Guide for Caryl Churchill's "Light Shining in Buckinghamshire," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 12, 2016
    ISBN9781535827447
    A Study Guide for Caryl Churchill's "Light Shining in Buckinghamshire"

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      A Study Guide for Caryl Churchill's "Light Shining in Buckinghamshire" - Gale

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      Light Shining in Buckinghamshire

      Caryl Churchill

      1976

      Introduction

      Caryl Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire depicts the conflicts surrounding the English Civil War (1641-1651), particularly the years 1647 to 1649. Rather than emphasize the eventual execution of King Charles I or the action of the war itself, Churchill's drama focuses on the lives and struggles of ordinary English citizens.

      Light Shining in Buckinghamshire explores the themes of collective identity and what it means to be free while illustrating the multifaceted challenge to authority that fueled the English Civil War. These themes are central to Churchill's body of work, and in this particular play, she mixes historical facts and characters with fictional dialogue and characters. Her people speak as they did in seventeenth-century England, and there is sparingly used controversial language toward the end of the play.

      Individualism is not important in Light Shining in Buckinghamshire; rather, Churchill's interest lay in the portrayal of groups of people and how they were affected by their circumstances during this major political and religious upheaval under Charles I. Because this drama is based on history, readers and viewers need a working knowledge of that time period in order to understand the significance of the dialogue and perspectives presented.

      The play is available as a book published by Theatre Communications Group.

      Author Biography

      Churchill was born on September 3, 1938, in London, England. After World War II, her family moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where Churchill lived until the late 1950s. At that time, she returned to England to attend Oxford University, from which she graduated with a degree in English in 1960.

      Churchill's first play, Downstairs, was written and performed in 1958, while she was still a student. That play won an award at the Sunday Times National Union of Students Drama Festival. She wrote two more student drama group plays before marrying lawyer David Harter in 1961. She and her husband have three sons.

      In 1962, Churchill began writing radio plays for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the largest broadcasting corporation in the world. Soon she was writing television plays for the BBC as well. Most of her radio and television plays have been adapted for the stage. Her first professional stage production, Owners, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1972.

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