Composers and their stage works 


(John) David CAUTE

(born Alexandria, Egypt 16 December 1936) is a British author, journalist and historian. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Wellington, Wadham College and St Antony's College, Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1959, but resigned in 1965. From 1966 Caute held various, mostly temporary, academic positions. He was Literary Editor of the New Statesman 1979-80

Plays:

  1. Songs for an Autumn Rifle (produced 1961).
  2. The Demonstration (produced 1969). 1970.
  3. The Fourth World (produced 1973).

Radio Plays:

  1. Fallout, 1972;
  2. The Zimbabwe Tapes, 1983;
  3. Henry and the Dogs, 1986;
  4. Sanctions, 1988.

Television Documentary:

  • Brecht & Co., 1979.

Novels:

  1. At Fever Pitch. 1959.
  2. Comrade Jacob. 1961.
  3. The Decline of the West. 1966.
  4. The Occupation. 1971.
  5. The Baby Sitters (as John Salisbury). 1978.
  6. Moscow Gold (as John Salisbury). 1980.
  7. The K-Factor. 1983.
  8. News from Nowhere. 1986.
  9. Veronica; or, The Two Nations. 1989.

Other Publications

  1. Communism and the French Intellectuals 1914-1960. 1964.
  2. The Left in Europe since 1789. 1966.
  3. Fanon. 1970.
  4. The Illusion. 1971.
  5. The Fellow-Travellers. 1973; revised edition, 1988.
  6. Collisions: Essays and Reviews. 1974.
  7. Cuba, Yes? 1974.
  8. The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge under Truman and Eisenhower. 1978.
  9. Under the Skin: The Death of White Rhodesia. 1983.
  10. The Espionage of the Saints: Two Essays on Silence and the State. 1986.
  11. Left Behind: Journeys into British Politics. 1987.
  12. Sixty Eight: The Year of the Barricades. 1988.
  13. Editor, Essential Writings, by Karl Marx. 1967.

Critical Studies:

  • Anger and After by John Russell Taylor, 1962, revised edition, 1969, as The Angry Theatre, 1962, revised edition, 1969.