BRITISH and IRISH DRAMA: 1890 TO 1950

By Richard Farr Dietrich -- USF

   

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BRITISH and IRISH DRAMA

1890 TO 1950

A CRITICAL HISTORY

 

by

 

Richard Farr Dietrich

University of South Florida

 

Twayne Publishers    -    Boston

A Division of G. K. Hall & Co.

 

TITLE CHANGE: Please note that at the time of the publishing of this book, the original title was “British Drama . . .   because it was then taken for granted that such a title included Irish drama, even though Ireland had achieved political independence by 1923, mostly because in the arts in the period of this study national identity was still very much blurred, several major Irish dramatists, for instance, actually living in England or spending as much if not more time in England as in Ireland.  Nevertheless, for the purposes of recognizing the current political separation, the author has changed the title to British and Irish Drama 1890 to 1950: A Critical History.  

 


 

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          I.       Introduction: A Renaissance of the Drama                            

          II.      “Our Theatres in the Nineties”: Haunted by Ghosts                  

          III.     1900-1930: The Triumph of the New Drama               

          IV.     Irish Drama: Soul Music from John Bull’s Other Island         

            V.    1930-1950: Waiting for Beckett                           

VI.        Common Cause: A National Theater          

                   

CHRONOLOGY                              

NOTES                      

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY                                                                                   

INDEX                       

THE AUTHOR

   


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 

            I wish to thank the University of South Florida, and particularly Robert Pawlowski as Chairman of the English Department, for granting the research time necessary for the writing of this book. Other thanks I extend to Professor Kinley Roby, Lewis DeSimone, Gabrielle B. McDonald, and Barbara Sutton for their editorial guidance, and to my wife, Lori, for her faithful reading of the manuscript and patient handling of the writer.

For permission to reprint photographs and illustrations, I wish to thank the Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection, the National Theatre of Great Britain, Punch Publications, New Or­chard Editions, the Society of Authors, George Eastman House, the Mansell Collection, the BBC Picture Hulton Library, the Bettmann Archives, Macmillan and Company, and H. Montgomery Hyde.

Thanks too to Princeton University Press for permission to quote extensively from Martin Meisel’s Shaw and the Nineteenth-Century Theater, and to Stanley Weintraub and the Pennsylvania State University Press for permission to use portions of essays I published in The Shaw Review and The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies.

 


FACTS OF PUBLICATION

 

British Drama, 1890 to 1950: A Critical History (out of print)

Richard F. Dietrich

Copyright 1989 by G. K. Hall & Co.

All rights reserved.

Published by Twayne Publishers

A Division of G. K. Hall & Co.

70 Lincoln Street

Boston, Massachusetts 021 II

 

Copyediting supervised by Barbara Sutton

Book design and production by Gabrielle B. McDonald

 

Typeset in 10 point Bembo

by Huron Valley Graphics, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan

Printed on permanent/durable acid-free paper

and bound in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dietrich, Richard F., 1936— British drama, 1890 to 1950 : a critical history /

 Richard F. Dietrich.

p.cm.—(Twayne’s critical history of British drama)

Bibliography: p.

Includes index.           - -

ISBN 0-8057-8951-0

1. English drama—I9th century—History and criticism.

2. English drama—20th century—History and criticism.

I. Title. II. Series. PR721.D54 1989

822’ .912’09—dc19   88-37964 CIP

 

Revised Online Versions—2000, 2012 (with title revised to Modern British and Irish Drama 1890 to 1950: A Critical History).

 

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