{"product_id":"9780367470852-english-theatrical-avantgarde-19001925","title":"The English Theatrical Avant-Garde 1900-1925","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe English Theatrical Avant-Garde 1900 – 1925\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ebrings to light an extensive range of hitherto forgotten or ignored theatre practices, uncovering a new look at some of the well-known figures of the early Twentieth-Century English theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe English Theatrical Avant-Garde, 1900–1925\u003c\/em\u003e unearths an extensive range of hitherto forgotten or ignored theatre practices. In doing so it reveals some of the well-known figures of the early twentieth-century English theatre in a strikingly new light. It fluently describes an intensity of innovation and experiment that together made the Edwardian theatre rather more radical, and rather more queer, than we’ve ever thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere the majority of writing on the early twentieth-century theatrical avant-garde is concerned with European movements and experiments, English activity of the period is often seen as parochial and conservative – mainly realism and issues-based drama. This book presents a new model of how avant-gardes might work; a model based not on masculine individualism but on communal inclusion. In describing this fascinating material, the author introduces us to many new figures and shows familiar ones in different ways: there’s Florence Farr, independent woman; Bob Trevelyan, radical pacifist and music drama pioneer; Granville Barker doing fairy plays while de-dramatising drama; Laurence Housman, socialist, homosexual, scripting St Francis; and the oddly modern J.M. Barrie. Together they made theatre practices rich in their diversity but consistent in their attempt to be new, producing a theatrical avant-garde unlike any other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a vital and indispensable new study for scholars and students of early twentieth-century theatre in England and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40687167373409,"sku":"9780367470852","price":36.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29803796.jpg?v=1760340276","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780367470852-english-theatrical-avantgarde-19001925","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}