Book description
CONTENTS:
1. ANCIENT AND MODERN
2. PLAYS OF SIMPLE FAITH
3. INTERLUDES, MERRY AND MORAL
4. ELIZABETHAN ROMANCE AND REALITY
5. JACOBEAN REALISM AND ARTIFICIALITY
6. COURTLY ELEGANCE
7. IN GOOD KING CHARLES’ GOLDEN DAYS
8. A CENTURY OF THE GENTEEL AND THE SENTIMENTAL
9. THE REIGN OF MELODRAMA AND EXTRAVAGANZA
10. THE MODERN DRAMA: The First Movement (Pinero, Jones and Wilde)
11. THE MODERN DRAMA: The Second Movement (Galsworthy, The Repertory Playwrights, and George Bernard Shaw)
12. THE MODERN DRAMA: The Third Movement (Bridie, Priestley, Eliot and Fry)
13. THE MODERN DRAMA: The Fourth Movement (The "Contemporary Theatre")
14. THE MODERN DRAMA: A Fifth Movement?
