BRITISH DRAMA: 1890 TO 1950

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BRITISH 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.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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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

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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.

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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 Version--2000

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