Editing David Hare (playwright) (section)

==Early life and education ==
David Rippon Hare{{cn|date=December 2024}} was born on  5 June 1947<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Hare-British-playwright-and-director |title=David Hare, British playwright and director |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=Britannica.com |publisher=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |access-date=28 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240629114246/https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Hare-British-playwright-and-director |archive-date=29 June 2024 }}</ref> in [[St Leonards-on-Sea]], [[Hastings]], [[Sussex]],<!-- Sussex was not divided into East and West until 1974 --> and was raised – first in a flat, then in a semi-detached house – in [[Bexhill-on-Sea]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.visit1066country.com/whats-on/hastings-literary-festival-p1757081|title=Hastings Literary Festival|website=1066 Country|access-date=18 January 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.hastingsindependentpress.co.uk/articles/culture/arts/sir-david-hare-at-the-national/|title=Sir David Hare at the National|first=Tom |last=Daldry|work=Hastings Independent|date=14 December 2018}}</ref> the son of Agnes Cockburn (née Gilmour) and Clifford Theodore Rippon Hare, a passenger ship's [[purser]] in the [[Merchant Navy (United Kingdom)|Merchant Navy]]. His father's elder brother was the cricketer [[Steriker Hare]].<ref name="The Blue Touch Paper">Hare, David, ''The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir'', [[Faber and Faber]], 2015.</ref> The Hare family claims descent from the [[Earl of Bristol|Earls of Bristol]].<ref name="The Blue Touch Paper" /><ref>''The International Who's Who, 1991–1992'', Europa Publishing, p. 660.</ref><ref>Boon, Richard, ''About Hare: The Playwright and the Work'', Faber, 2003.</ref><ref>Zeifman, Hersh, ''David Hare a Casebook'' (London: Routledge, 1994), {{ISBN|0-8240-2579-2}}, p. xix.</ref> 

Hare was educated at [[Lancing College]], an [[independent school]] in Sussex, and at [[Jesus College, Cambridge]] (MA (Cantab.), English Literature). While at Cambridge, he was the hiring manager on the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club Committee in 1968.<ref>ADC Theatre, Cambridge Archives.</ref>