British theatre in the Great War : a revaluation / / Gordon Williams
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| Autore: |
Williams Gordon <1935->
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| Titolo: |
British theatre in the Great War : a revaluation / / Gordon Williams
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Continuum, 2003 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 792/.0941/09041 |
| Soggetto topico: | Theater - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
| Performing arts - Great Britain - History - 20th century | |
| World War, 1914-1918 - Theater and the war | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [340]-342) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Prefatory note; 1 Introduction; 2 Musical comedy and musical anarchy; 3 Pantomime and tradition; 4 Variety on the halls; 5 War and the legitimate theatre; 6 A classic theatre; 7 Fashionable audiences and the opera; 8 Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | British Theatre in the Great War deals with a theatrical phase customarily dismissed by those charting twentieth-century developments. What becomes clear is that assessment by unsuitable literary criteria has masked the importance of the war years in Britain |
| Titolo autorizzato: | British theatre in the Great War |
| ISBN: | 1-281-29840-9 |
| 9786611298401 | |
| 1-84714-128-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820122503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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