Contributor
Kershaw, Baz, editor.
ImprintCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description1 online resource (xxxiv, 562 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Note:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
Note:v. 3. 1895-1946 -- British theatre, 1895-1946: art, entertainment, audiences -- an introduction / Dennis Kennedy -- The London stage, 1895-1918 / Thomas Postlewait -- Provincial stages, 1900-1934: touring and early repertory theatre / VIV Gardner -- Popular theatre, 1895-1940 / Sophie Nield -- Case study: Cicely Hamilton's Diana of Dobson's, 1908 / Christine Dymkowski -- A critical year in perspective: 1926 / Steve Nicholson -- The London stage, 1918-1945 / Maggie B. Gale -- Social commitment and aesthetic experiment, 1895-1946 / Mick Wallis -- Scottish and Welsh Theatres, 1895-2002 -- Towards national identities: theatre in Scotland / Jan McDonald -- Case study: Ena Lamont Stewart's Men Should Weep, 1947 / Nadine Holdsworth -- Towards national identities: Welsh theatres / Ioan Williams -- Case study: refashioning a myth, performances of the tale of Blodeuwedd / Hazel Walford Davies -- 1940-2002 -- British theatre, 1940-2002: an introduction / Baz Kershaw -- The establishment of mainstream theatre, 1946-1979 / John Bull -- Alternative theatres, 1946-2000 / Baz Kershaw -- Developments in the profession of theatre, 1946-2000 / Colin Chambers -- Case study: Theatre Workshop's Oh What a Lovely War, 1963 / Derek Paget -- 1979 and after: a view / Vera Gottlieb -- British theatre and commerce, 1979-2000 / Stephen Lacey -- New theatre for new times: decentralisation, innovation and pluralism, 1975-2000 / Simon Jones -- Theatre in Scotland in the 1990s and beyond / Adrienne Scullion -- Theatre in Wales in the 1990s and beyond / Roger Owen -- English theatre in the 1990s and beyond / Liz Tomlin.
Note:This volume explores the rich and complex histories of English, Scottish and Welsh theatres in the 'long' twentieth century since 1895. Twenty-three original essays by leading historians and critics investigate the major aspects of theatrical performance, ranging from the great actor-managers to humble seaside entertainers, from between-wars West End women playwrights to the roots of professional theatre in Wales and Scotland, and from the challenges of alternative theatres to the economics of theatre under Thatcher. Detailed surveys of key theatre practices and traditions across this whole period are combined with case studies of influential productions, critical years placed in historical perspective and evaluations of theatre at the turn of the millennium. The collection presents an exciting evolution in the scholarly study of modern British theatre history, skilfully demonstrating how performance variously became a critical litmus test of the great aesthetic, cultural, social, political and economic upheavals in the age of extremes.
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