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Theatre of the people : Donald Wolfit's Shakespearean productions, 1937-1953 /
This book looks at how performances of Shakespeare in the Second World War (and post-war years) not only commented on the strife happening outside the theatre, but drew audiences together in a shared sense of community as a way of resisting the enemy. This examination is through the lens of one part...
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2016]
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface: a personal search for theatre of the people -- Acknowledgments -- The actor-manager's temperament -- Hamlet at the Malvern Festival Theatre, October 1937 -- Selections from Shakespeare at the Strand Theatre, 1940-41 -- Richard III at St. Francis Theatre, Letchworth, September 1941 -- A midsummer night's dream at the Prince of Wales Theatre, Cardiff, September 1942 -- The merchant of Venice at the Opera House, Manchester, October 1943 -- King Lear at the Scala Theatre, London, April 1944 -- Twelfth night at the Grand Theatre, Leeds, October 1945 -- Othello at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, November 1946 -- As you like it at His Majesty's Theatre, Montreal, January, March 1947 -- The Merry wives of Windsor at the Bedford Theatre, Camden Town, March 1949 -- Macbeth at the Dudley Hippodrome, October 1950 -- The taming of the shrew at the King's Theatre, Hammersmith, April 1953 -- The legacy. | |
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