Name: Brit Theatre Between Wars 1918-1939 (Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre)
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Author: Clive Barker
ISBN: 9780521044509

portada Brit Theatre Between Wars 1918-1939 (Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Clive Barker

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0521044502

ISBN13

9780521044509

Synopsis "Brit Theatre Between Wars 1918-1939 (Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre)"

Histories of British theatre between 1918 and 1939 have tended to marginalize the commercial and mainstream in favour of the literary or the politically motivated. This volume brings together a collection of essays that reflect both a far more complex theatre world than this strategy has allowed for, and scholarship on mainstream and alternative theatres in the 1920s and 1930s. Combining the popular with the commercial, the book includes accounts of the craze for thriller and detective plays and musical comedy and revue, alongside analyses of historical pageantry and the development of politicized productions of Shakespeare. With assessments of the representation of gender and sexuality in the theatre, this volume not only unveils hitherto neglected theatre practices but also places them in the context of a society undergoing rapid social and cultural change. It will appeal to advanced undergraduates and postgraduates and scholars interested in twentieth-century British theatre.

Clive Barker

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Escritor, director de cine, dibujante y pintor. Autor del género de horror y fantasía. Estudió Inglés y Filosofía en la Universidad de Liverpool. Es uno de los más aclamados en su área. Es conocido por la serie de relatos de "Libro de sangre" y sus adaptaciones cinematográficas (Hellraiser y Razas de noche). Tiene también numerosas adaptaciones de su obra al cómic. Colaboró con Marvel Comics en la creación de un sello editorial propio llamado Razorline, el cual tuvo corta duración.

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