350 Pages
by
Routledge
350 Pages
by
Routledge
350 Pages
by
Routledge
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The period 1890-1940 was a particularly rich and influential phase in the development of modern English theatre: the age of Wilde and Shaw and a generation of influential actors and managers from Irving and Terry to Guilgud and Olivier. Jean Chothia's study is in two parts beginning with a portrait of the period, setting the narrative context and considering the dramatic social and cultural... Read more
1. Introduction
Part One - An Overview: Plays in Context.
2. English Theatre in the 1890s.
3. 1900-20 The New Drama.
4. 1920-40 Between the Wars.
Part Two - Closer Readings of Some of Some Significant Works and Topics.
5. Four Comedies.
6. George Bernard Shaw.
7. Literary Drama: Henry James, W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot.
8. Dramatising Strife: The Working Classes on the British Stage.
9. Variable Authenticities: Staging Shakespeare in the Early Modern Period.
10. The Blindfold Medium: Early Radio Drama.
Chronology
General Bibliographies
Individual Authors
Index
Part One - An Overview: Plays in Context.
2. English Theatre in the 1890s.
3. 1900-20 The New Drama.
4. 1920-40 Between the Wars.
Part Two - Closer Readings of Some of Some Significant Works and Topics.
5. Four Comedies.
6. George Bernard Shaw.
7. Literary Drama: Henry James, W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot.
8. Dramatising Strife: The Working Classes on the British Stage.
9. Variable Authenticities: Staging Shakespeare in the Early Modern Period.
10. The Blindfold Medium: Early Radio Drama.
Chronology
General Bibliographies
Individual Authors
Index
Biography
Jean Chothia
