David Hare is one of the most productive, successful and influential political playwrights in postwar Britain. The author of more than thirty stage plays and thirty screenplays for film and television, he has worked in both the radical fringe and mainstream institutions, commercial and subsidized, film and television as well as theatre, and has successfully explored the grand themes of politics through humane and truthful drama. Born on 5 June 1947, he grew up in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, and was educated at Lancing College, where he met and became close friends with Christopher Hampton who would similarly go on to have a major career as a playwright. From Lancing Hare went to read English at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he met another budding playwright, Tony Bicat, with whom he founded the leftwing Portable Theatre Company,...
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Citation: Sierz, Aleks. "David Hare". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 July 2004; last revised 22 August 2025. [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1980, accessed 06 December 2025.]
