Philip Edwards

Threshold of a Nation

A Study in English and Irish Drama

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780521276955
• ISBN-10: 0521276950
• Artikelnr.: 22801204

Autorenporträt

Philip Edwards worked at The Chalk Face for 39 years prior to his retirement in 2013. He attended Ferndale Grammar School; where he was introduced to the story of The Bando in the Dark. His children must be approaching that stage in life where they can pass the tale on to the next generation. Together with his wife Lynda, they both share the love of folk music and Morris dance.

Inhaltsangabe

List of plates
Preface
1. Introduction: the King's threshold
Part I. Shakespeare's England: 2. A superfluous sort of men: the rise and fall of the professional theatre
3. Astraea and Chrisoganus
4. Nation and empire
5. The hidden King: Shakespeare's history plays
6. Ben Jonson
7. The royal pretenders: Ford's Perkin Warbeck and Massinger's Believe As You List
Part II. Yeats's Ireland: 8. Our Irish theatre
9. A play-house in the waste: George Moore and the Irish theatre
10. Nothing is concluded Sean O'Casey, Denis Johnston and Brendan Behan
Notes
Index.