Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015 : Art, Modernity and the National Stage.

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION MODERN VERSE DRAMA IN ENGLAND: THE FORGOTTEN TRADITION -- The origins of modern verse drama -- Culture of reform -- Into oblivion -- National Theatre as English theatre -- CHAPTER 1 NINETEENTH-CENTURY LEGACIES: SPECTACLE, SONORITY AND ROMANTIC REFORM IN THE THEATRE OF STEPHEN PHILLIPS AND JAMES ELROY FLECKER -- Romantics and Victorians: the Shakespearean ideal -- Stephen Phillips -- James Elroy Flecker's Hassan -- CHAPTER 2 THE NEW DRAMA: SOCIAL CHALLENGE AND POETIC THEATRE FROM W.B. YEATS TO TERENCE GRAY -- Verse drama and the theatre of reform at the beginning of the century -- Amateur drama -- Counter-revolution: the fight against social realism -- Celtic Twilight and Yeats -- Towards an English Theatre of Beauty -- Total art: Terence Gray and the Cambridge Festival Theatre -- CHAPTER 3 GEORGIAN REVOLT: JOHN MASEFIELD, SHAKESPEARE AND GORDON BOTTOMLEY'S KING LEAR'S WIFE -- Georgian revolt: Laurence Binyon, John Drinkwater, John Masefield and Lascelles Abercrombie -- The Shakespearean spectre -- Gordon Bottomley's King Lear's Wife -- CHAPTER 4 RELIGIOUS DRAMA: THEATRICAL EXPERIMENTATION AND SPIRITUAL RENEWAL BETWEEN THE WARS -- John Masefield's The Coming of Christ -- Zeal in the House: Charles Williams and Dorothy L. Sayers -- CHAPTER 5 MUSIC, POLITICS AND THE MODERN POET: T.S. ELIOT AND W.H. AUDEN IN THE 1930s -- Group Theatre: Politics and collaborative art in the 1930s -- Eliot: rhythm, chorus, aria -- From page to stage -- Murder in the Cathedral: the anxiety of intermediality -- Auden: from Brecht to Britten -- Dance of Death: collaboration and collectivity -- Wistful Poetics: The Ascent of F6 -- A new poetry: Auden and opera.

CHAPTER 6 RENAISSANCE AND FALSE DAWN: MAINSTREAM SUCCESS ON THE POSTWAR STAGE -- Mercury rising: The Old Man of the Mountains and The Shadow Factory -- Ronald Duncan: intermedial instincts after the war -- This Way to the Tomb -- The Cocktail Party -- Christopher Fry -- Post-war Elizabethan comedy: The Lady's Not for Burning -- CHAPTER 7 ANGER AND AFTERMATH: ROYAL COURT, NATIONAL THEATRE AND VERSE DRAMA AFTER 1956 -- The modern English stage -- Aftermath and legacies -- Poetic radicalism and the people: John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy -- A new stage: Michael Tippett and English verse drama -- CHAPTER 8 TRADITION AND TRAJECTORY: VERSE AND DRAMATIC HERITAGE IN CARYL CHURCHILL, STEVEN BERKOFF AND TONY HARRISON -- Serious Money: Caryl Churchill's city comedy in verse -- Steven Berkoff, Greek drama and the modern Elizabethan aria -- Contemporary trends in modern English verse drama -- Tony Harrison and the return of the poet -- CONCLUSION THE RETURN OF THE KING: KING CHARLES III AND SHAKESPEAREAN POWER AND PASTICHE -- King Charles III -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

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