Threshold of a Nation
A Study in English and Irish Drama
- Author: Philip Edwards
- Date Published: September 1983
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521276955
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- Date Published: September 1983
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521276955
- length: 284 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 138 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.35kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of plates
Preface
1. Introduction: the King's threshold
Part I. Shakespeare's England:
2. A superfluous sort of men: the rise and fall of the professional theatre
3. Astraea and Chrisoganus
4. Nation and empire
5. The hidden King: Shakespeare's history plays
6. Ben Jonson
7. The royal pretenders: Ford's Perkin Warbeck and Massinger's Believe As You List
Part II. Yeats's Ireland:
8. Our Irish theatre
9. A play-house in the waste: George Moore and the Irish theatre
10. Nothing is concluded Sean O'Casey, Denis Johnston and Brendan Behan
Notes
Index.
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