New Theatre Quarterly 77: Volume 20, Part 1

Provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet.

Simon Trussler (Edited by), Clive Barker (Edited by)

9780521535922, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 18 May 2006

96 pages, 10 b/w illus.
24.6 x 17.4 x 0.7 cm, 0.206 kg

New Theatre Quarterly provides a lively international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet, and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning. Articles in volume 77 include: 'First-Class Evening Entertainments': Spectacle and Social Control in a Mid-Victorian Music Hall'; The 'Wicked City' Motif on the American Stage before the Civil War; An Eighteenth-Century Performance Analysis: Böttiger on Iffland; Practice as Research in Performance: a Personal Response; Jeremy Sandford: a Docu-Retrospect; British Radio Dramaturgy and the Effects of the New Conservatism; 'Out Vile Jelly': Sarah Kane's Blasted and Shakespeare's King Lear; 'Me and My Mates': the State of English Playwriting, 2003.

'First-Class Evening Entertainments': Spectacle and Social Control in a Mid-Victorian Music Hall' Nicholas Till
The 'Wicked City' Motif on the American Stage before the Civil War John W. Frick
An Eighteenth-Century Performance Analysis: Böttiger on Iffland George W. Brandt
Practice as Research in Performance: a Personal Response Bella Merlin
Jeremy Sandford: a Docu-Retrospect Derek Paget
British Radio Dramaturgy and the Effects of the New Conservatism William Stanton
'Out Vile Jelly': Sarah Kane's Blasted and Shakespeare's King Lear Graham Saunders
'Me and My Mates': the State of English Playwriting, 2003 Aleks Sierz.

Subject Areas: Dance & other performing arts [AS]