224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1984. The turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a time of considerable change in the English theatre. Victorian attitudes were shocked or shattered by the new drama of Ibsen; the major figure of George Bernard Shaw dominated the period; theatre censorship was the subject of a long and furious contest; and staging conventions changed from the spectacular... Read more
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Ibsen, J.T. Grein and the Independent Theatre 3. Elizabeth Robins, the New Century Theatre and The Stage Society 4. Harley Granville Barker: Associations and Achievements, 1900-1914 5. Towards a National Theatre 6. The Censorship Saga 7. Spectacle, Austerity and New Dimensions: The Staging of Shakespeare from Victorian to Modern 8. Edward Gordon Craig: Artist of the Theatre 9. Conclusion. Appendices
Biography
James Woodfield
