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Author : Christopher Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 2002-11-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521016759
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Author : Dan Rebellato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 113465782X
It is said that British Drama was shockingly lifted out of the doldrums by the 'revolutionary' appearance of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in May 1956. But had the theatre been as ephemeral and effeminate as the Angry Young Men claimed? Was the era of Terence Rattigan and 'Binkie' Beaumont as repressed and closeted as it seems? In this bold and fascinating challenge to the received wisdom of the last forty years of theatrical history, Dan Rebellato uncovers a different story altogether. It is one where Britain's declining Empire and increasing panic over the 'problem' of homosexuality played a crucial role in the construction of an enduring myth of the theatre. By going back to primary sources and rigorously questioning all assumptions, Rebellato has rewritten the history of the Making of Modern British Drama.
Author : R. Barton Palmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 33,42 MB
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1107001013
The first comprehensive study of British and American films adapted from modern British plays.
Author : David Lane
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748686797
This book offers an extended analysis of writers and theatre companies in Britain since 1995, and explores them alongside recent cultural, social and political developments. Referencing well-known practitioners from modern theatre, this book is an excelle
Author : John Russell Brown
Publisher : Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble Books ; London : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 18,58 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Drama
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Author : Korbinian Stöckl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110714760
Despite the recent turn to affects and emotions in the humanities and despite the unceasing popularity of romantic and erotic love as a motif in fictional works of all genres, the subject has received surprisingly little attention in academic studies of contemporary drama. Love in Contemporary British Drama reflects the appeal of love as a topic and driving force in dramatic works with in-depth analyses of eight pivotal plays from the past three decades. Following an interdisciplinary and historical approach, the study collects and condenses theories of love from philosophy and sociology to derive persisting discourses and to examine their reoccurrence and transformation in contemporary plays. Special emphasis is put on narratives of love’s compensatory function and precariousness and on how modifications of these narratives epitomise the peculiarities of emotional life in the social and cultural context of the present. Based on the assumption that drama is especially inclined to draw on shared narratives for representations of love, the book demonstrates that love is both a window to remnants of the past in the present and a proper subject matter for drama in times in which the suitability of the dramatic form has been questioned.
Author : Roger Cornish
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Drama
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Author : Simon Trussler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 1983-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 134917064X
A compendium of information on all the main events, individuals, political groupings and issues of the 20th century. It provides a guide to current thinking on important historical topics and personalities within the period, and offers a guide to further reading.
Author : British drama
Publisher :
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
Release : 1811
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Author : John Smart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 2001-06-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780521795630
Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Looking back on 20th century British drama from its' historical, social and political perspective enables the reader to set each play in a broader context. Contents include a selection of play extracts from well-known authors including Harold Brighouse, John Osborne, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard and Timberlake Wertenbaker.