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200 10$aEnglish theatre in transition 1881-1914 /$fJames Woodfield
205   $a1st ed.
210  1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2016.
215   $a1 online resource (224 p.)
225 0 $aRoutledge Library Editions: Victorian Theatre ;$vVolume 6
300   $aFirst published in 1984.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $a""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Original Title""; ""Original Copyright""; ""CONTENTS""; ""Preface""; ""1 Introduction""; ""(A) Nineteenth-Century Background""; ""(B) Realism and Counter-Realism""; ""2 Ibsen, J.T. Grein and the Independent Theatre""; ""3 Elizabeth Robins, the New Century Theatre and The Stage Society""; ""4 Harley Granville Barker: Associations and Achievements, 1900-1914""; ""5 Towards a National Theatre""; ""6 The Censorship Saga""; ""7 Spectacle, Austerity and New Dimensions: The Staging of Shakespeare from Victorian to Modern""
327   $a""8 Edward Gordon Craig: Artist of the Theatre""""9 Conclusion""; ""Appendix A - A British ""Theatre Libre""""; ""Appendix B - Independent Theatre Productions 1891-1897""; ""Appendix C - The Stage Society Productions 1899-1914""; ""Appendix D - Toast at Stage Society Dinner, 17 May 1904""; ""Appendix E - The Elizabethan Stage Society Productions 1893-1913""; ""Appendix F - Letter to the Times, 29 October 1907, on Censorship""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Index""
330   $aOriginally published in 1984. The turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a time of considerable change in the English theatre. Victorian attitudes were shocked or shattered by the new drama of Ibsen; the major figure of George Bernard Shaw dominated the period; theatre censorship was the subject of a long and furious contest; and staging conventions changed from the spectacular stylings of Irving and Beerbohm Tree to the masking and statuesque styles of Isadora Duncan and the inner realism of Stanislavsky. This book traces the activities of the leading figures in the English theatre, notably William Archer who introduced Ibsen to this country and who became one of the main promoters of the idea of a National Theatre. Other personalities discussed include Harley Granville Barker, particularly his association with Shaw at the Court Theatre and his part in campaigns against censorship and for changes in the staging of Shakespeare, and Edward Gordon Craig, whose rebellion against the Victorian theatre took and anti-realist direction. This is a stimulating account of the background to the modern English theatre which can only increase appreciation of its standard and variety.
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