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  • Chapter 2 - Planning a Research Project:

  • from Part I - Planning
  • Edited by Tracy C. Davis, Northwestern University, Illinois, Paul Rae, University of Melbourne
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies
    Published online:
    01 February 2024
    Print publication:
    08 February 2024, pp 59-71

  • Summary

    Maggie B. Gale explores ways of both framing and structuring the beginnings of a research project, and finding what might be called a ‘research niche’. She uses the case study of an emerging research project to articulate different possible approaches to conceptualizing the starting point, direction, and shape of a project, as well as working practices which might be useful in research design and method. The chapter also explores a series of working principles for avoiding the pitfalls of research distractions, without missing out on the serendipitous discoveries which a more unstructured process might allow. Gale’s own research on Elsa Lanchester illustrates the principles.

  • Chapter 7 - War on the Popular Stage

  • from Part II - Theatre during the War
  • Edited by Helen E. M. Brooks, University of Kent, Canterbury, Michael Hammond, University of Southampton
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre of the First World War
    Published online:
    19 October 2023
    Print publication:
    19 October 2023, pp 128-143

  • Summary

    Following the previous discussion of popular performance forms, this chapter examines the ways in which popular war-time melodramas drew on both existing traditions within British theatre and on the kinds of social debates which prevailed before the war and were transformed by it. The chapter also considers how genres such as the sketch or the one act play, circulating in music halls, in revues and at wartime charity fund-raisers, like melodramas, adapted to and reflected the changing and gendered experience of wartime conditions. These dramas often represented topical events - such as espionage - and explored contemporary anxieties - especially around gender and domestic life in war-time - whilst capitalising on the popularity of pre-existing dramatic forms.

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