Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015 : Art, Modernity and the National Stage.

Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015 : Art, Modernity and the National Stage.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morra, Irene
Other Authors: Wetmore, Jr., Kevin J., Lonergan, Patrick
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.
Series:Critical Companions.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Verse drama > History and criticism.
Drama > 20th century > History and criticism.
Drama
Verse drama
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Cover page ; Halftitle page ; Series page ; Title page ; Copyright page ; Dedication ; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION MODERN VERSE DRAMA IN ENGLAND: THE FORGOTTEN TRADITION; The origins of modern verse drama; Culture of reform; Into oblivion; National Theatre as English theatre; CHAPTER 1 NINETEENTH-CENTURY LEGACIES: SPECTACLE, SONORITY AND ROMANTIC REFORM IN THE THEATRE OF STEPHEN PHILLIPS AND JAMES ELROY FLECKER; Romantics and Victorians: the Shakespearean ideal; Stephen Phillips; James Elroy Flecker's Hassan.
  • CHAPTER 2 THE NEW DRAMA: SOCIAL CHALLENGE AND POETIC THEATRE FROM W.B. YEATS TO TERENCE GRAYVerse drama and the theatre of reform at the beginning of the century; Amateur drama; Counter-revolution: the fight against social realism; Celtic Twilight and Yeats; Towards an English Theatre of Beauty; Total art: Terence Gray and the Cambridge Festival Theatre; CHAPTER 3 GEORGIAN REVOLT: JOHN MASEFIELD, SHAKESPEARE AND GORDON BOTTOMLEY'S KING LEAR'S WIFE; Georgian revolt: Laurence Binyon, John Drinkwater, John Masefield and Lascelles Abercrombie; The Shakespearean spectre.
  • Gordon Bottomley's King Lear's WifeCHAPTER 4 RELIGIOUS DRAMA: THEATRICAL EXPERIMENTATION AND SPIRITUAL RENEWAL BETWEEN THE WARS; John Masefield's The Coming of Christ; Zeal in the House: Charles Williams and Dorothy L. Sayers; CHAPTER 5 MUSIC, POLITICS AND THE MODERN POET: T.S. ELIOT AND W.H. AUDEN IN THE 1930s; Group Theatre: Politics and collaborative art in the 1930s; Eliot: rhythm, chorus, aria; From page to stage; Murder in the Cathedral: the anxiety of intermediality; Auden: from Brecht to Britten; Dance of Death: collaboration and collectivity; Wistful Poetics: The Ascent of F6.
  • A new poetry: Auden and operaCHAPTER 6 RENAISSANCE AND FALSE DAWN: MAINSTREAM SUCCESS ON THE POSTWAR STAGE; Mercury rising: The Old Man of the Mountains and The Shadow Factory; Ronald Duncan: intermedial instincts after the war; This Way to the Tomb; The Cocktail Party; Christopher Fry; Post-war Elizabethan comedy: The Lady's Not for Burning; CHAPTER 7 ANGER AND AFTERMATH: ROYAL COURT, NATIONAL THEATRE AND VERSE DRAMA AFTER 1956; The modern English stage; Aftermath and legacies; Poetic radicalism and the people: John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy.
  • A new stage: Michael Tippett and English verse dramaCHAPTER 8 TRADITION AND TRAJECTORY: VERSE AND DRAMATIC HERITAGE IN CARYL CHURCHILL, STEVEN BERKOFF AND TONY HARRISON; Serious Money: Caryl Churchill's city comedy in verse; Steven Berkoff, Greek drama and the modern Elizabethan aria; Contemporary trends in modern English verse drama; Tony Harrison and the return of the poet; CONCLUSION THE RETURN OF THE KING: KING CHARLES III AND SHAKESPEAREAN POWER AND PASTICHE; King Charles III; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

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