Author: Katharine Worth
Publisher: London : Bell
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Revolutions in Modern English Drama
Author: Katharine Worth
Publisher: London : Bell
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher: London : Bell
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Function of Song in Contemporary British Drama
Author: Elizabeth Hale Winkler
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874133585
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
This comprehensive study formulates an original theory that dramatic song must be perceived as a separate genre situated between poetry, music, and theater. It focuses on John Arden, Margaretta D'Arcy, Edward Bond, Peter Barnes, John Osborne, Peter Nichols, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer, and John McGrath.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874133585
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
This comprehensive study formulates an original theory that dramatic song must be perceived as a separate genre situated between poetry, music, and theater. It focuses on John Arden, Margaretta D'Arcy, Edward Bond, Peter Barnes, John Osborne, Peter Nichols, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer, and John McGrath.
Reader's Guide to Literature in English
Author: Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135314179
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135314179
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.
Tragedy Walks the Streets
Author: Matthew S. Buckley
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801884349
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
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Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801884349
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
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The Sexual Revolution in Modern English Literature
Author: Ch.I. Glicksberg
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401168008
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The study of its literature is a useful guide to the degree of sexual security existing in a culture. ' When a future historian comes to treat of the social taboos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in a fourteen-volume life-work, his theories of the existence of an enormous secret language of bawdry and an immense oral literature of obscene stories and rhymes known, in various degrees of initiation, to every man and woman in the country, yet never consigned to writing or openly admitted as existing, will be treated as a chimerical notion by the enlightened age in which he writes. ' If I were asked to name some characteristics typical of the mid-20th century, I would put first the uncritical worship of money, the spread of nationalism, the tyranny of the orgasm, the homosexual protest and the apotheosis of snobbery. Money, sex, and social climbing motivate society. " The English are, on the whole, an inhibited people. They have a basic prudery and gaucheness in sex matters which sets them apart from almost every other nation in Europe . . . . In England, the realisation that many of the restraints and taboos of Victorian times are unnatural and even psychologically harmful, combined with the decline of organized religion, has led to a considerable laxity in sex matters, particularly since World War II! 1.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401168008
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The study of its literature is a useful guide to the degree of sexual security existing in a culture. ' When a future historian comes to treat of the social taboos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in a fourteen-volume life-work, his theories of the existence of an enormous secret language of bawdry and an immense oral literature of obscene stories and rhymes known, in various degrees of initiation, to every man and woman in the country, yet never consigned to writing or openly admitted as existing, will be treated as a chimerical notion by the enlightened age in which he writes. ' If I were asked to name some characteristics typical of the mid-20th century, I would put first the uncritical worship of money, the spread of nationalism, the tyranny of the orgasm, the homosexual protest and the apotheosis of snobbery. Money, sex, and social climbing motivate society. " The English are, on the whole, an inhibited people. They have a basic prudery and gaucheness in sex matters which sets them apart from almost every other nation in Europe . . . . In England, the realisation that many of the restraints and taboos of Victorian times are unnatural and even psychologically harmful, combined with the decline of organized religion, has led to a considerable laxity in sex matters, particularly since World War II! 1.
Tragedy Walks the Streets
Author: Matthew S. Buckley
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801884344
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher description
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801884344
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher description
After Brecht
Author: Janelle G. Reinelt
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472084081
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
How contemporary British political theater has evolved and expanded from the legacy of Bertolt Brecht
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472084081
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
How contemporary British political theater has evolved and expanded from the legacy of Bertolt Brecht
A Reader's Guide to Modern British Drama
Author: Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815630760
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book reveals the influences of modern history and psychology on British drama; the all-important influence of Irish dramatists like Wilde, Shaw, O’Casey, and Beckett; the significance of the Independent Theatre of J. T. Grein and the early Royal Court Theatre; the gay community’s contribution to the British theater; the powerful new feminist drama; and the British festival theater. Auseful tool for readers wishing to know more about Britain’s great dramatic tradition and vital contemporary theater, for students pursuing drama studies, and for libraries in need of an accessible reference work.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815630760
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book reveals the influences of modern history and psychology on British drama; the all-important influence of Irish dramatists like Wilde, Shaw, O’Casey, and Beckett; the significance of the Independent Theatre of J. T. Grein and the early Royal Court Theatre; the gay community’s contribution to the British theater; the powerful new feminist drama; and the British festival theater. Auseful tool for readers wishing to know more about Britain’s great dramatic tradition and vital contemporary theater, for students pursuing drama studies, and for libraries in need of an accessible reference work.
Modern British Farce
Author: Leslie Smith
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780389208204
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Contents: The Nature of Farce; A.W. Pinero and the Court Farces; Ben Travers and the Aldwych Farces; Brian Rix and the Whitehall Farces; Post-Whitehall Farces; Joe Orton; Farce and Contemporary Drama: I; Farce and Contemporary Drama: II; Conclusion; ^R Appendix: a Chronological List of Plays; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780389208204
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Contents: The Nature of Farce; A.W. Pinero and the Court Farces; Ben Travers and the Aldwych Farces; Brian Rix and the Whitehall Farces; Post-Whitehall Farces; Joe Orton; Farce and Contemporary Drama: I; Farce and Contemporary Drama: II; Conclusion; ^R Appendix: a Chronological List of Plays; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Early Modern English Drama
Author: Garrett A. Sullivan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Each of these essays addresses not only a play, but a specific cultural or literary topic. They cover vital perspectives in cultural studies such as race, class, gender, sexuality and colonialism; as well as topics in history like humanism, science, law, and reformation theology; and in dramatic genre.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Each of these essays addresses not only a play, but a specific cultural or literary topic. They cover vital perspectives in cultural studies such as race, class, gender, sexuality and colonialism; as well as topics in history like humanism, science, law, and reformation theology; and in dramatic genre.