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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"British drama"”.
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Iconoclasm in modern British drama
… has proved to be a major feature in modern British drama, where in a short period of time, the theatre has witnessed a host of iconoclastic dramatists, where demythologization has been widespread and fierce and where the icons of the present and the past have been subjected to a wholesale …
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Fiction-Making in Contemporary British Drama
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The Artist as a Dramatic Character in Contemporary British Drama: A Critical Study of Stoppard, Barker and Wertenbaker
… representation of the artist as a character in British theatre. In this study, which includes three chapters and one introductory chapter, I attempt to show that British playwrights, whether male or female, use their main fictional characters as artists either for self-reflexivity or to comment …
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The life and literary career of W. Stanley Houghton, 1881-1913
… a history as possible of all his work: plays, dramatic criticisms, essays, sketches and short stories, and at the same time plot his short life and thereby provide a detailed biography of the kind not previously available. It begins by tracing the family history, his birth and early life. Then …
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Engaging and Evading the Bard: Shakespeare, Nationalism, and British Theatrical Modernism, 1900-1964
<p>Engaging and Evading the Bard is about British theatrical modernism and its ambivalent relationship to Shakespeare. The conventional narrative of early twentieth-century British theater and drama situates their rise within the broad European context of Continental artistic developments, such as …
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An Alternate Spirit of the Age: George Colman the Younger's Production of Romantic-period Identity
<p>This dissertation uses the plays of George Colman the Younger to trace out a system that arose in the theater of the early Romantic period, a textual and cultural process that, like Romanticism, reflected, reacted to and productively affected the social, economic and political changes occurring …
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Looking Behind the Scenes. The History of the Royal Court Theatre Through the Lens of Prominent Productions
… in the English speaking world. The who-is-who of British playwrighting started off, visited or ended up at “the most important theatre in Europe” (New York Times). But no matter how big the names attached to a theatre are, it is the everyday battles of budgets, politics and compromises that really …
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Talking back: audience collaboration and intervention in modernist and postwar drama
… between spectatorship and agency. The dramas of W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, and John Arden pursue such a blurring by positioning spectators as collaborators rather than passive bodies upon whom the production works. My study demonstrates how these plays represent a hitherto …
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Reformation and Revelry: The Practices and Politics of Dancing in Early Modern England, c.1550-c.1640
This study examines the cultural and religious politics of dancing in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Although theologically dance was considered morally neutral, as a physical, embodied practice, context determined whether each occurrence was deemed acceptable or immoral. …
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Gender and Desire in Thomas Lovell Beddoes' The Brides' Tragedy and Death's Jest-Book
Thomas Lovell Beddoes' female dramatic characters are, for the most part, objectified and static, but these passive women perform a crucial narrative and thematic function in the plays. Alongside the destructive activity of the male characters, they dramatize masculine-feminine unions as idealized …