First World War Plays

Author : Mark Rawlinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472527509

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First World War Plays by Mark Rawlinson Pdf

The First World War (1914–1918) marked a turning point in modern history and culture and its literary legacy is vast: poetry, fiction and memoirs abound. But the drama of the period is rarely recognised, with only a handful of plays commonly associated with the war. First World War Plays draws together canonical and lesser-known plays from the First World War to the end of the twentieth century, tracing the ways in which dramatists have engaged with and resisted World War I in their works. Spanning almost a century of conflict, this anthology explores the changing cultural attitudes to warfare, including the significance of the war over time, interwar pacifism, and historical revisionism. The collection includes writing by combatants, as well as playwrights addressing historical events and national memory, by both men and women, and by writers from Great Britain and the United States. Plays from the period, like Night Watches by Allan Monkhouse (1916), Mine Eyes Have Seen by Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1918) and Tunnel Trench by Hubert Griffith (1924), are joined with reflections on the war in Post Mortem by Noël Coward (1930, performed 1944) and Oh What A Lovely War by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop (1963) as well as later works The Accrington Pals by Peter Whelan (1982) and Sea and Land and Sky by Abigail Docherty (2010). Accompanied by a general introduction by editor, Dr Mark Rawlinson.

Author : H. Kosok
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230590649

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The Theatre of War by H. Kosok Pdf

The Theatre of War surveys more than two hundred plays about the First World War written, published and/or performed in Britain and Ireland between 1909 and 1998. Perspectives discussed include: subject matter, technique and evaluation. The result is an understanding of the First World War as a watershed in international history.

Author : Mark Rawlinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472532626

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First World War Plays by Mark Rawlinson Pdf

The First World War (1914–1918) marked a turning point in modern history and culture and its literary legacy is vast: poetry, fiction and memoirs abound. But the drama of the period is rarely recognised, with only a handful of plays commonly associated with the war. First World War Plays draws together canonical and lesser-known plays from the First World War to the end of the twentieth century, tracing the ways in which dramatists have engaged with and resisted World War I in their works. Spanning almost a century of conflict, this anthology explores the changing cultural attitudes to warfare, including the significance of the war over time, interwar pacifism, and historical revisionism. The collection includes writing by combatants, as well as playwrights addressing historical events and national memory, by both men and women, and by writers from Great Britain and the United States. Plays from the period, like Night Watches by Allan Monkhouse (1916), Mine Eyes Have Seen by Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1918) and Tunnel Trench by Hubert Griffith (1924), are joined with reflections on the war in Post Mortem by Noël Coward (1930, performed 1944) and Oh What A Lovely War by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop (1963) as well as later works The Accrington Pals by Peter Whelan (1982) and Sea and Land and Sky by Abigail Docherty (2010). Accompanied by a general introduction by editor, Dr Mark Rawlinson.

Author : Helen E. M. Brooks,Michael Hammond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108481502

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The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre of the First World War by Helen E. M. Brooks,Michael Hammond Pdf

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.

Author : Sally Stewart
Publisher : Severn House Large Print
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English
ISBN : 0727878352

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Journey's End by Sally Stewart Pdf

Leonie Harcourt finds herself pregnant by her Parisian lover, Luc Gosselin. Luc doesn't return after the Great War, but Leonie keeps a small locked suitcase that Luc gave her--and it is this that will connect her at last with the Gosselin family.

Author : Agnes Cardinal,Elaine Turner,Claire M. Tylee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136357251

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War Plays by Women by Agnes Cardinal,Elaine Turner,Claire M. Tylee Pdf

This anthology consists of ten plays from countries involved in the First World War, including plays from Germany and France never before available in translation. Representing a range of dramatic forms, from radio play to street-epic, from comic sketch to musical, this anthology includes plays from: Gertrude Stein, Muriel Box, Marion Wentworth Craig, Dorothy Hewett, Berta Lask, Marie Leneru, Wendy Lill, Alice Dunbar Nelson, and Christina Reid. Highly successful in their day, these plays demonstrate how women have attempted to use theatre to achieve social change. The collection explores the historical development of theatrical conventions and genres and the historical context of social and gender issues.

Author : Claire M. Tylee,Elaine Turner,Agnes Cardinal
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0415222974

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War Plays by Women by Claire M. Tylee,Elaine Turner,Agnes Cardinal Pdf

This anthology consists of ten plays from countries involved in the First World War. It explores the historical development of theatrical conventions and genres and the historical context of social and gender issues.

Author : R. C. Sherriff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:255577747

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Journeyś End by R. C. Sherriff Pdf

Author : Jessica Meyer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047433385

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British Popular Culture and the First World War by Jessica Meyer Pdf

Showcasing the work of both established academics and emerging scholars of the field, this book discusses aspects of British popular culture from the material cultures of food and clothing to the representational cultures of literature and film. The result is an engaging and invigorating re-examination of the First World War and its place in British culture.

Author : Ralf Schneider,Jane Potter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110422559

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Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War by Ralf Schneider,Jane Potter Pdf

The First World War has given rise to a multifaceted cultural production like no other historical event. This handbook surveys British literature and film about the war from 1914 until today. The continuing interest in World War I highlights the interdependence of war experience, the imaginative re-creation of that experience in writing, and individual as well as collective memory. In the first part of the handbook, the major genres of war writing and film are addressed, including of course poetry and the novel, but also the short story; furthermore, it is shown how our conception of the Great War is broadened when looked at from the perspective of gender studies and post-colonial criticism. The chapters in the second part present close readings of important contributions to the literary and filmic representation of World War I in Great Britain. All in all, the contributions demonstrate how the opposing forces of focusing and canon-formation on the one hand, and broadening and revision of the canon on the other, have characterised British literature and culture of the First World War.

Author : Agnes Cardinal,Elaine Turner,Claire M. Tylee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136357329

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War Plays by Women by Agnes Cardinal,Elaine Turner,Claire M. Tylee Pdf

This anthology consists of ten plays from countries involved in the First World War, including plays from Germany and France never before available in translation. Representing a range of dramatic forms, from radio play to street-epic, from comic sketch to musical, this anthology includes plays from: Gertrude Stein, Muriel Box, Marion Wentworth Craig, Dorothy Hewett, Berta Lask, Marie Leneru, Wendy Lill, Alice Dunbar Nelson, and Christina Reid. Highly successful in their day, these plays demonstrate how women have attempted to use theatre to achieve social change. The collection explores the historical development of theatrical conventions and genres and the historical context of social and gender issues.

Author : J. Boll
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137330024

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The New War Plays by J. Boll Pdf

How can war be represented on stage? How does the theatre examine the structures leading to violence and war and explore their transformation of societies? Springing from the discussion about 'New Wars' in the age of globalisation, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates how these 'New Wars' bring forth new plays about war.

Author : Clémentine Tholas-Disset,Karen A. Ritzenhoff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137436436

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Humor, Entertainment, and Popular Culture during World War I by Clémentine Tholas-Disset,Karen A. Ritzenhoff Pdf

Humor and entertainment were vital to the war effort during World War I. While entertainment provided relief to soldiers in the trenches, it also built up support for the war effort on the home front. This book looks at transnational war culture by examining seemingly light-hearted discourses on the Great War.

Author : Fran Brearton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199261385

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The Great War in Irish Poetry by Fran Brearton Pdf

The Great War in Irish Poetry explores the impact of the First World War on the work of W. B. Yeats, Robert Graves, and Louis MacNeice in the period 1914-45, and on three contemporary Northern Irish poets, Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley. Its concern is to place their work, andmemory of the Great War, in the context of Irish politics and culture in the twentieth century. The historical background to Irish involvement in the Great War is explained, as are the ways in which issues raised in 1912-20 still reverberate in the politics of remembrance in Northern Ireland,particularly through such events as the Home Rule cause, the loss of the Titanic, the Battle of the Somme, the Easter Rising. While the Great War is perceived as central to English culture, and its literature holds a privileged position in the English literary canon, the centrality of the Great War to Irish writing has seldom been recognised. This book shows first, that despite complications in Irish domestic politicswhich led to the repression of memory of the Great War, Irish poets have been drawn throughout the century to the events and images of 1914-18. This engagement is particularly true of those writing in the 'troubled' Northern Ireland of the last thirty years. The second main concern is the extent towhich recognition of the importance of the Great War in Irish writing has itself become a casualty of competing versions of the literary canon.

Author : Michael Morpurgo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781849435710

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Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo Pdf

Private Peaceful relives the life of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young First World War soldier awaiting the firing squad at dawn. During the night he looks back at his short but joyful past growing up in rural Devon: his exciting first days at school; the accident in the forest that killed his father; his adventures with Molly, the love of his life; and the battles and injustices of war that brought him to the front line. Winner of the Blue Peter Book of the Year, Private Peaceful is by the third Children's Laureate, Michael Morpurgo, award-winning author of War Horse. His inspiration came from a visit to Ypres where he was shocked to discover how many young soldiers were court-martialled and shot for cowardice during the First World War. This edition also includes introductory essays by Michael Morpurgo, Associate Director of Private Peaceful production Mark Leipacher, as well as an essay from Simon Reade, adaptor & director of this stage adaptation of Private Peaceful.