Modern British Farce

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Contents: The Nature of Farce; A.W. Pinero and the Court Farces; Ben Travers and the Aldwych Farces; Brian Rix and the Whitehall Farces; Post-Whitehall Farces; Joe Orton; Farce and Contemporary Drama: I; Farce and Contemporary Drama: II; Conclusion; ^R Appendix: a Chronological List of Plays; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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Genre : Drama
Author : Leslie Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release : 1989
File : 260 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0389208205


Modern British Drama The Twentieth Century

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Genre : Drama
Author : Christopher Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2002-11-28
File : 604 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0521016754


A Companion To Modern British And Irish Drama 1880 2005

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This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama. Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism. Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Mary Luckhurst
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release : 2008-04-15
File : 608 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780470751473


Women In Theatre 2 3

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First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Genre : Art
Author : Julia Pascal
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2005-08-15
File : 133 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781135305369


Mastering Modern British History

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The new edition of this best-selling text includes a new section on the final years of the Labour government after Blair's resignation and a new chapter on the subsequent Coalition and Conservative governments. It is the ideal companion for students taking a first-level course in modern British History, as well as for undergraduates in history.

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Genre : History
Author : Norman Lowe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release : 2017-09-16
File : 636 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781137603883


Cultural Encounters In The New World

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Genre : America
Author : Harald Zapf
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Release : 2003
File : 466 Pages
ISBN-13 : 3823360442


Catalogue Of The Public Library Of The City Of Fall River

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Genre : Catalogs, Dictionary
Author : Fall River Public Library
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Release : 1882
File : 964 Pages
ISBN-13 : NYPL:33433089896553


Modern War And The Utility Of Force

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This book investigates the use and utility of military force in modern war. After the Cold War, Western armed forces have increasingly been called upon to intervene in internal conflicts in the former Third World. These forces have been called upon to carry out missions that they traditionally have not been trained and equipped for, in environments that they often have not been prepared for. A number of these ‘new’ types of operations in allegedly ‘new’ wars stand out, such as peace enforcement, state-building, counter-insurgency, humanitarian aid, and not the least counter-terrorism. The success rate of these missions has, however, been mixed, providing fuel for an increasingly loud debate on the utility of force in modern war. This edited volume poses as its central question: what is in fact the utility of force? Is force useful for anything other than a complete conventional defeat of a regular opponent, who is confronted in the open field? This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, war and conflict studies, counter-insurgency, security studies and IR. Isabelle Duyvesteyn is an Associate Professor at the Department of History of International Relations, Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Jan Angstrom is a researcher at the Swedish National Defence College.

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Genre : History
Author : Isabelle Duyvesteyn
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2010-04-05
File : 318 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781136969607


Modern London Or London As It Is By P Cunningham 10 Eds Title Varies

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Author : Peter Cunningham
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Release : 1879
File : 442 Pages
ISBN-13 : OXFORD:555050946


New Perspectives On Detective Fiction

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This collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry, examining the ways it shapes issues of social destabilization, moral ambiguity, reader complicity, intertextuality, and metafiction. Breaking new ground by moving beyond the critical preoccupation with classification of historical types and generic determinants, contributors examine the effect of mystery on literary forms and on readers, who experience the provocative, complex process of coming to grips with the unknown and the unknowable. This volume opens up discussion on publically acclaimed, modern works of mystery and on classic pieces, addressing a variety of forms including novels, plays, graphic novels, television series, films, and ipad games. Re-examining the interpretive potential of a genre that seems easily defined yet has endless permutations, the book closely analyzes the cultural function of mystery, the way it intervenes in social and political problems, as well as the literary properties that give the genre its particular shape. The volume treats various texts as meaningful subjects for critical analysis and sheds new light on the interpretive potential for a genre that creates as much ambiguity as it does clarity. Scholars of mystery and detective fiction, crime fiction, genre studies, and cultural studies will find this volume invaluable.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Casey Cothran
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2015-10-14
File : 418 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317435235