1956 and all that : the making of modern British drama / Dan Rebellato.
Material type:
TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 265 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 0203009991
- 0415189381
- 041518939X
- 1134657838
- 6610193797
- 9780203009994
- 9780415189385
- 9780415189392
- 9781134657834
- 9786610193790
- 1900-1999
- English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Homosexualité et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Littérature et société -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Théâtre anglais -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- English drama
- Homosexuality and literature
- Literature and society
- Engels
- Toneelstukken
- Great Britain
- 822/.91409353 21
- PR736 .R35 1999eb
- 18.05
- 123Library
- Dawsonera
- ebrary
- EBSCOhost
- Internet Archive
- MyiLibrary
- Open Library
- ProQuest Ebook Central
- Taylor & Francis
- Taylor & Francis
- VLeBooks
- VLeBooks
- Access restricted to Harris Learning Library use, and to students, faculty, and staff of Nipissing University.
- Click here to access online
- Click here to access online
- Publisher description
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Books
|
SPAA Library General Collection | On Shelves | PR736 .R35 1999eb (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | 0007209 |
Browsing SPAA Library shelves, Shelving location: General Collection, Collection: On Shelves Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
| PR658.T4 T46 2023 From playtext to performance on the early modern stage : how did they do it? / | PR708.W6 A53 2016 Female playwrights and eighteenth-century comedy : negotiating marriage on the london stage. | PR734.W6 D66 1995 Getting into the act : women playwrights in London, 1776-1829 / | PR736 .R35 1999eb 1956 and all that : the making of modern British drama / | PR739.F45 C36 2000 The Cambridge companion to modern British women playwrights / | PR739.F45 F37 2019 Women's playwriting and the women's movement, 1890-1918 / | PR741 H378 2022 BRECHT AND POST-1990S BRITISH DRAMA : dialectical theatre today. |
Based on the author's thesis.
P.B
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-259) and index.
'Why should I care': the politics of vital theatre -- The new Elizabethans: the docile bodies of funding -- A writer's theater: the professionalisation of the playwright -- Oh for empty seats: the Royal court and its audiences -- Something English: the repatriation of European drama -- Something (un)spoken: quoting, queers, and the fear of theatre -- Sister Mary Discipline: growing up straight at the Royal Court.
It is said that British Drama was shockingly lifted out of the doldrums by the 'revolutionary' appearance of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in May 1956. But had the theatre been as ephemeral and effeminate as the Angry Young Men claimed? Was the era of Terence Rattigan and 'Binkie' Beaumont as repressed and closeted as it seems? In this bold and fascinating challenge to the received wisdom of the last forty years of theatrical history, Dan Rebellato uncovers a different story altogether. It is one where Britain's declining Empire and increasing panic over the.
Print version record.
There are no comments on this title.