Modern British drama : the twentieth century

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Innes, Christopher, 1941-

ISBN:

9780521816519

9780521016759

Ek Yazar:

Innes, Christopher, 1941-

Yayım Bilgisi:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Fiziksel Tanım:

xxvii, 572 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents:

Contexts -- Defining modernism: George Bernard Shaw -- Social themes and realistic modes -- Comic mirror -- tradition and innovation -- Poetic drama -- verse, fantasy and symbolic images.

-- Defining modernism: George Bernard Shaw -- The reinterpretation of Ibsen -- Refurbishing nineteenth-century styles -- Thesis drama and metaphysical comedy -- Symbolism and politics -- Social themes and realistic modes -- Shavian influences and the question of censorship -- Intellectual drama versus public theatre: Granville-Barker and John Galsworthy -- Realism versus Agitprop: D.H. Lawrence and the Workers' Theatre Movement -- Terence Rattigan: updating the Well-Made Play -- John Osborne: the rhetoric of social alienation -- Arnold Wesker: utopian realism -- Brechtian influences: Epic stagecraft and British equivalents -- John Arden: the popular tradition and Epic alternatives -- Edward Bond: rationalism, realism and radical solutions -- David Edgar: from Agitprop to Social Realism -- Howard Brenton and David Hare: utopian perspectives on modern history -- The feminist alternative -- The comic mirror - tradition and innovation -- Somerset Maugham: popular comedy versus social criticism -- Noel Coward:: comedy as social image -- Ben Travers: society as Farce -- Joe Orton: Farce as confrontation -- Samuel Beckett: interior space and play as image -- Harold Pinter: power plays and the trap of comedy -- Peter Barnes and Trevor Griffiths: the politics of comedy -- Traditionalism and theatricality: Alan Ayckbourn and Michael Frayn -- Tom Stoppard: theatricality and the comedy of ideas --

Comic Voices: Patrick Marber -- Poetic drama - verse, fantasy and symbolic images -- The rejection of society: J.M. Barrie -- J.B. Priestley: temporal dislocation and transcendence -- Expressionistic archetypes: W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood -- T.S. Eliot: the drama of conversion -- Appealing to the popular imagination: Christopher Fry and Peter Shaffer -- Apocalyptic visions in theatres of Cruelty and Catastrophe: John Whiting, David Rudkin and Howard Barker -- Caryl Churchill: from the psychology of feminism to the surreal -- Sarah Kane: the poetry of madness in violent dreams -- Simon McBurney: devising a physical theatre -- Bibliographies --Index

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İngiliz tiyatrosu -- 20. yy. -- Tarih ve eleştiri.

English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

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A revised and updated version of Modern British Drama, 1890-1990, now covering the whole twentieth century, this was the first one-volume analysis of English playwriting to cover the most exciting and productive period in British Theatre from its inception to today. Through detailed discussions of major dramatists and plays, Innes traces the evolution of modernism from Bernard Shaw to Patrick Marber and Sarah Kane, and theatrical developments over the whole century. Includes information on the social and political environment surrounding the plays, first productions, and critical reception, plus chronology, illustrations from key performances, lists of playwrights and works, and selective bibliographies. An invaluable guide for students, theatre-goers and theatre historians.

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Choice Review

This is a revision of Innes's Modern British Drama, 1890-1990 (CH, Oct'92). Whether the changes are substantial enough to justify replacing the earlier volume is questionable. By extending the period covered ten years and eliminating the last ten years of the 19th century, Innes lost his chapter on Oscar Wilde, who died in 1900. The reasons for omitting chapters on Pinero, Synge, Yeats, and Beckett are harder to explain, (references to these playwrights remain). For this edition Innes adds sections on Sean O'Casey and Patrick Farber and includes a useful selected critical bibliography. Errors pointed out in the earlier Choice review remain: Peter Nichols's Poppy did not transfer to Broadway, the Marx Brothers did not make silent films, and the assertion that Laurence Olivier "had no previous experience of comedy" before playing in The Entertainer is at odds with the record. Another gaffe in both volumes is the assertion that Charles Chilton wrote the script for O, What a Lovely War; in fact that work never had a script but was improvised around Chilton's collection of WW I songs. Either volume is a useful resource, and libraries will be well served by either. Some photographs. Summing Up: Optional. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students; general readers. R. Sugarman emeritus, Southern Vermont College

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Acknowledgements

Chronology

1 Contexts

2 Defining modernism: George Bernard Shaw

3 Social themes and realistic formulae [playwrights discussed include: Granville-Barker, Workers' Theatre Movement; Rattigan; Osborne; Wesker; Brechtian influences; Arden; Bond; Edgar; Brenton; Hare; Gems]

4 The comic mirror - tradition and innovation [playwrights discussed include: Maugham; Coward; Travers; Orton; Beckett; Pinter; Barnes; Griffiths; Ayckbourn; Frayn; Stoppard; Marber]

5 Poetic drama - verse, fantasy and symbolic images [playwrights discussed include: Barrie; Priestley; Auden; Isherwood; Eliot; Fry; Shaffer; Whiting; Rudkin; Barker; Churchill; Kane; McBurney]

Bibliographies

Index

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