The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre of the First World War

ISBN-13: 9781108481502 / Angielski

Helen E. M. Brooks; Michael Hammond

Opis

The first comprehensive guide to British theatre's engagement with the First World War over the last century, providing accessible and lively coverage of theatre's role in the representation and remembrance of events, focusing on topics including regionality, politics, popular performance, Shakespeare, class, race and gender.

Recenzje

'Helen Brooks' and Michael Hammond's Companion to Theatre of the First World War is a significant milestone in critical scholarship on British theatre and the First World War. The Companion brings together fifteen expert scholars who range widely over the topic, and collectively remind us of the importance of remembering 'ordinary' people's lives during wartime. The essays in the Companion offer original and thoughtful approaches to a period of European history all too often subject to kneejerk patriotism and pompous memorialisation. The Companion to Theatre of the First World War is about more than the Great War: it is a guide to the foundations of twentieth-century popular modernity.' Kate Newey, University of Exeter

Spis treści

Introduction: British theatre and the first world war Helen E. M. Brooks; Part I. Mobilising for War: 1. Foreshadowing the war: future war and invasion plays, 1900–1914 Ailise Bulfin; 2. Mobilising the nation: the comic revue in wartime Robert Dean; Part II. Theatre During the War: 3. Challenging times: making theatre during the war Claire Cochrane; 4. Everyone's a playgoer now!: theatregoing and theatregoers 1914–1918 Viv Gardner; 5. Theatre in the war zone Emma Hanna; 6. The classics at war Ailsa Grant Ferguson; 7. War on the popular stage: 'spy' plays and the one act domestic comedy Maggie B. Gale; 8. Cinema and theatre in the great war Michael Hammond; 9. American invasions Philippa Burt; 10. European theatre on the British stage 1914–1918 Eva Krivanec; 11. Resistance and objection Anselm Heinrich; Part III: The Memory of War: 12. Reflecting on the war Rebecca D'Monté; 13. Re-imagining the war Helen E. M. Brooks; 14. Commemorating the war Rebecca Benzie; Chronology of events and productions; Further reading; Index.