Böcker av Ronald Hayman

Originally published in 1969, this was the first book of its kind: an attempt to describe the different approaches that the actor needs to make to different media - theatre, film and television - and to show how the art of acting, which never stops evolving had entered into a new phase of growth in the sixties.

Originally published in 1973, this book investigates the power and the pressures behind English theatre in the late 20th Century, analysing its structure and systems, and the way that money and motives flow through it.

Originally published in 1970, this account of Tolstoy's achievement as a novelist concentrates on the best known of his works, in particular the two masterpieces Anna Karenina and War and Peace. Extracts are, however, taken from all the major novels and are arranged chronologically to demonstrate the development of technique.

In this important study, originally published in 1985, Ronald Hayman scrutinizes Grass's development and assesses his achievement. While this study focuses mainly on the fiction, it also takes into account the poetry, plays, political writing, criticism and graphic work.

'God is dead', announced Nietzsche - before going on to abolish himself. An enthralling guide for a new, postmodern age.

This drama about a sensitive, driven, turbulent and mystical playwright uses a fictional play-within-a-play device to create the environment within which its director/subject - Strindburg - works out his relationships with his lovers and his cast.

In this frank study Ronald Hayman explores the intersection of biography and art in the work of one of the most exuberantly autobiographical dramatists of the American Theatre. He examines Williams's troubled childhood, his drug abuse and alcoholism, and his death in 1983.

Carl Jung's theories made him one of the world's most influential analysts. This biography reveals what went on during Jung's sessions with patients and exploresthe man's own sanity.

This biography sets out to reveal the true identity of the novelist Thomas Mann. His bisexuality, obsession with preserving appearances and the deep guilt which plagued him for much of his life is exposed. These revelations are drawn from Mann's diaries and interviews with his children.