British Theatre Between the Wars, 1918 1939

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-521-04450-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 446 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre

Histories of British theatre between 1918 and 1939 have tended to marginalize the commercial and mainstream in favour of the literary or the politically motivated. This volume brings together a collection of essays that reflect both a far more complex theatre world than this strategy has allowed for, and scholarship on mainstream and alternative theatres in the 1920s and 1930s. Combining the popular with the commercial, the book includes accounts of the craze for thriller and detective plays and musical comedy and revue, alongside analyses of historical pageantry and the development of politicized productions of Shakespeare. With assessments of the representation of gender and sexuality in the theatre, this volume not only unveils hitherto neglected theatre practices but also places them in the context of a society undergoing rapid social and cultural change. It will appeal to advanced undergraduates and postgraduates and scholars interested in twentieth-century British theatre.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gale, Maggie B.

Barker, Clive

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatertheorie, Ästhetik des Theaters, Theaterkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Introduction Maggie B. Gale; 1. Theatre and society: the Edwardian legacy, the First World War and the inter-war years Clive Barker; 2. Body parts: the success of the thriller in the inter-war years John Stokes; 3. When men were men and women were women John Deeney; 4. Girl crazy: musicals and revue between the wars James Ross Moore; 5. Errant nymphs: women and the inter-war theatre Maggie B. Gale; 6. Blood on the bright young things: Shakespeare in the 1930s Tony Howard; 7. The religion of socialism or a pleasant Sunday afternoon?: The ILP Arts Guild Ros Merkin; 8. Delving the levels of memory and dressing up in the past Mick Wallis; 9. The ghosts of war: stage ghosts and time slips as a response to war Clive Barker; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Gale, Maggie B.
Maggie B. Gale is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of West End Women; women on the London stage 1918-1962 (1996) and joint editor with Viv Gardner of Women, Theatre and Performance: New Histories, New Historiographies (2000).

Barker, Clive
Clive Barker has had a long career combining practical work and academic teaching. His ideas on actor training were published as Theatre Games in 1977. He is co-editor of New Theatre Quarterly published by Cambridge University Press.