{"product_id":"threshold-of-a-nation-a-study-in-english-and-irish-drama-paperback-9780521276955","title":"Threshold of a Nation; A Study in English and Irish Drama (Paperback) 9780521276955","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThreshold of a Nation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Study in English and Irish Drama\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis imprint is established to publish in paperback for an individual readership the Press's most outstanding original monographs.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePhilip Edwards (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521276955, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 29 September 1983\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e284 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 13.8 x 1.7 cm, 0.35 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis imprint is established to publish in paperback for an individual readership the Press's most outstanding original monographs. These are titles which would normally appear in specialist hardback editions only, but whose quality and general academic importance justify their special promotion in this prestige imprint. The series will include both new and recent titles drawn from the whole range of the Press's very substantial publishing programmes in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and therefore represents some of the best current scholarship in the English language.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of plates\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction: the King's threshold\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Shakespeare's England: 2. A superfluous sort of men: the rise and fall of the professional theatre\u003cbr\u003e 3. Astraea and Chrisoganus\u003cbr\u003e 4. Nation and empire\u003cbr\u003e 5. The hidden King: Shakespeare's history plays\u003cbr\u003e 6. Ben Jonson\u003cbr\u003e 7. The royal pretenders: Ford's Perkin Warbeck and Massinger's Believe As You List\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Yeats's Ireland: 8. Our Irish theatre\u003cbr\u003e 9. A play-house in the waste: George Moore and the Irish theatre\u003cbr\u003e 10. Nothing is concluded Sean O'Casey, Denis Johnston and Brendan Behan\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006971040024,"sku":"9780521276955","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521276955i_cc263c2f-ce3c-4f38-b830-fe658d90f079.jpg?v=1691374376","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/threshold-of-a-nation-a-study-in-english-and-irish-drama-paperback-9780521276955","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}