180 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
180 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
180 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The English Theatrical Avant-Garde, 1900–1925 unearths an extensive range of hitherto forgotten or ignored theatre practices. In doing so it reveals some of the well-known figures of the early twentieth-century English theatre in a strikingly new light. It fluently describes an intensity of innovation and experiment that together made the Edwardian theatre rather more radical, and rather more... Read more
1. Experimental Theatre 2. Modernities 3. The Renovation of the Stage 4. Advanced Guards 5. Fantasy Play
Biography
Simon Shepherd is a Fellow of the British Academy and Professor Emeritus of Theatre at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He has published on the cultural history of theatre, performance theory and formal analysis of drama. His most recent books are The Unknown Granville Barker (2021) and The Cambridge Introduction to Performance Theory (2016).
