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Author:   Irene Morra (Cardiff University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9781472580146

ISBN 10:   1472580141
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   20 October 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction. Modern Verse Drama in England: The Forgotten Tradition 1. Nineteenth Century-Legacies: Spectacle, Sonority and Romantic Reform in the Theatre of Stephen Phillips and James Elroy Flecker 2. The New Drama: Social Challenge and Poetic Theatre from W. B. Yeats to Terence Gray 3. Georgian Revolt: John Masefield, Shakespeare and Gordon Bottomley's King Lear's Wife 4. Religious Drama: Theatrical Experimentation and Spiritual Renewal between the Wars 5. Music, Politics and the Modern Poet: T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden in the 1930s 6. Renaissance and False Dawn: Mainstream Success on the Postwar Stage 7. Anger and Aftermath: Royal Court, National Theatre and Verse Drama after 1956 8. Tradition and Trajectory: Verse and Dramatic Heritage in Caryl Churchill, Steven Berkoff and Tony Harrison 9. The Return of the King: King Charles III and Shakespearean Power and Pastiche Bibliography

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Dr Irene Morra is Reader in English Literature at Cardiff University, UK. She is the author of Britishness, Popular Music, and National Identity: The Making of Modern Britain and Twentieth-Century British Authors and the Rise of Opera in Britain.

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