Christopher Innes is one of the leading experts in the field of modern British drama studies and he has written and published extensively in this and related areas. His books include Piscator's Political Theatre, Modern German Drama, Holy Theatre, Edward Gordon Craig, Avant Garde Theatre: 1892-1992, and A Sourcebook on Naturalistic Theatre, as well as Modern British Drama: 1890-1990. Professor Innes also serves as the General Editor for the Cambridge University Press series Directors in Perspective, and holds the Canada Research Chair in Performance and Culture.
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Chronology
1. Contexts
2. Defining modernism: George Bernard Shaw
3. Social themes and realistic formulae [playwrights discussed include: Granville-Barker, Workers' Theatre Movement
Rattigan
Osborne
Wesker
Brechtian influences
Arden
Bond
Edgar
Brenton
Hare
Gems]
4. The comic mirror - tradition and innovation [playwrights discussed include: Maugham
Coward
Travers
Orton
Beckett
Pinter
Barnes
Griffiths
Ayckbourn
Frayn
Stoppard
Marber]
5. Poetic drama - verse, fantasy and symbolic images [playwrights discussed include: Barrie
Priestley
Auden
Isherwood
Eliot
Fry
Shaffer
Whiting
Rudkin
Barker
Churchill
Kane
McBurney]
Bibliographies
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