Religion in modern English drama.
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Ann...
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Commercial drama: The legacy of Henry Arthur Jones
- Barrett, the Bible and the big shows
- Sentimental supernaturalism
- A doctrine of substitution
- pt. 2. Church drama: Up from everyman
- Canterbury, Chichester and the religious drama society
- Laurence Housman and John Masefield
- Charles Williams and Dorothy Sayers
- pt. 3. The post-war years: T.S. Eliot and Christopher Fry
- The Mercury poets
- Commercial drama: a reprise
- The church circuit
- The division and the prospect.