This first volume of David Hare's plays contains his work from the 1970s, including his landmark play of that decade, Plenty, charting the development of 'one of the great post-war British playwrights' (Independent on Sunday).

The volume also includes the plays Slag, Teeth 'n' Smiles, Knuckle and Licking Hitler, and is introduced by the author.

Slag
An embattled contemporary morality play full of sardonic fun and spiky indignation...What an enviable debut: funny, intelligent and briskly honest. -- Sunday Times
Teeth 'n' Smiles
The writing is bright with aggression...a flintily intelligent play. -- The Times
Knuckle
I beg all lovers of the theatre, and all those concerned for its future, to see Knuckle. -- Sunday Telegraph
Licking Hitler
Beginning with a middle-class young woman's unceremonious introduction to specialized war work, it develops with a devastating economy of means into a dramatization of the unarguable logic of deception...elegant, spare and as lucid as crystal. -- Observer
Plenty
Brilliant...it deepens with every viewing. --Mel Gussow, New York Times

Slag
An embattled contemporary morality play full of sardonic fun and spiky indignation...What an enviable debut: funny, intelligent and briskly honest. -- Sunday Times
Teeth 'n' Smiles
The writing is bright with aggression...a flintily intelligent play. -- The Times
Knuckle
I beg all lovers of the theatre, and all those concerned for its future, to see Knuckle. -- Sunday Telegraph
Licking Hitler
Beginning with a middle-class young woman's unceremonious introduction to specialized war work, it develops with a devastating economy of means into a dramatization of the unarguable logic of deception...elegant, spare and as lucid as crystal. -- Observer
Plenty
Brilliant...it deepens with every viewing. --Mel Gussow, New York Times

An embattled contemporary morality play full of sardonic fun and spiky indignation...What an enviable debut: funny, intelligent and briskly honest. Sunday Times on Slag

The writing is bright with aggression...a flintily intelligent play. The Times on Teeth 'n' Smiles

I beg all lovers of the theatre, and all those concerned for its future, to see Knuckle. Sunday Telegraph on Knuckle

Beginning with a middle-class young woman's unceremonious introduction to specialized war work, it develops with a devastating economy of means into a dramatization of the unarguable logic of deception...elegant, spare and as lucid as crystal. Observer on Licking Hitler

Brilliant...it deepens with every viewing. Mel Gussow, New York Times on Plenty

An embattled contemporary morality play full of sardonic fun and spiky indignation...What an enviable debut: funny, intelligent and briskly honest. --Sunday Times on Slag

The writing is bright with aggression...a flintily intelligent play. --The Times on Teeth 'n' Smiles

I beg all lovers of the theatre, and all those concerned for its future, to see Knuckle. --Sunday Telegraph on Knuckle

Beginning with a middle-class young woman's unceremonious introduction to specialized war work, it develops with a devastating economy of means into a dramatization of the unarguable logic of deception...elegant, spare and as lucid as crystal. --Observer on Licking Hitler

Brilliant...it deepens with every viewing. --Mel Gussow, New York Times on Plenty

David Hare has written over thirty stage plays and thirty screenplays for film and television. The plays include Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton), The Secret Rapture, Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, The Blue Room, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, The Absence of War, The Judas Kiss, The Red Barn, The Moderate Soprano, I'm Not Running and Beat the Devil. For cinema, he has written The Hours, The Reader, Damage, Denial, Wetherby and The White Crow among others, while his television films include Licking Hitler, the Worricker Trilogy, Collateral and Roadkill. In a millennial poll of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, five of the top hundred were his.