Modernism after the Ballets Russes: Movement in the British Theatre
Author:   Gabriela Minden (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of English Studies, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of English Studies, Durham University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198951674


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   14 August 2025
Format:   Hardback
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Modernism after the Ballets Russes: Movement in the British Theatre


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Author:   Gabriela Minden (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of English Studies, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of English Studies, Durham University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.525kg
ISBN:  

9780198951674


ISBN 10:   0198951671
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   14 August 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Introduction 1: 'Laying the Foundations of an English Ballet': Cecil Sharp and Harley Granville Barker's A Midsummer Night's Dream 2: Tamara Karsavina and J. M. Barrie's The Truth about the Russian Dancers: Towards 'a new development of dramatic art' 3: Ninette de Valois and Terence Gray's Oresteia of Aeschylus: A 'new theatre-craft [in] Cambridge' 4: 'Verse-Play' or 'Spoken Ballet'?: Rupert Doone, W. H. Auden, and a New Poetic Drama Conclusion

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Gabriela Minden is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. She completed her BA in English Literature at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she received the ES Carrigan Prize for graduate study in English. She then read for MSt and DPhil degrees at the University of Oxford, where she was awarded the 2022 Swapna Dev Memorial Book Prize, for the best DPhil thesis examined in the Oxford English Faculty. Before joining Durham, she was a lecturer at Cardiff University.

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