A major new study of one of the most important figures in Twentieth Century world literature. Includes an accessible analysis of Fugard's work, the personal and political injustices that inform it, and the lives of the people it portrays. Athol Fugard has done more to document and comment on Apertheid-era south Africa than any other writer in the last century. Using mostly migrant workers and township dwellers, and staging guerilla-raid productions in black areas, Fugard frequently came into conflict with the government, forcing him to take his work overseas. Consequently, powerful plays such as Blood Knot, Sizwe Banzi is Dead and 'Master Harold' ... and the boys came to broadcast the iniquities of the Apartheid era to the world. Fugard's work retains an insistent influence, and is studied and performed the world over.