CONTENTS:

1. THE ENGLISH THEATRE FROM 1900
General View
The Victorian Legacy
The Playhouses
The Commercial Basis
Scenery an Stage Mechanism
Lighting
Art Drama – The Cambridge Festival Theatre

2. ENGLISH DRAMA FROM 1900: GENERAL SURVEY

3. THE LITERARY DRAMA – BALLET – OPERA
Steven Phillips
James Elroy Flecker
Davidson – Hardy’s Dynasts
Gordon Bottomley
Binyon – Masefield – Gibson – Abercrombie – Drinkwater
Yeats, Synge, and the Irish School
Later Poetic Drama: Elliot – Auden and Isherwood – Duncan – Williams – Fry
Ballet
Opera

4. SPECTACLE DRAMA: MUSICAL COMEDY – LIGHT OPERA – REVUE – PANTOMIME – SPECTACULAR DRAMA

5. DRAMA OF IDEAS
Bernard Shaw
Other Exponents of the Drama of Ideas: Galsworthy – Granville-Barker – Houghton – The Manchester School – St John Ervine – Pinero – Hankin
Repertory Theatres and Amateur Groups
Experimental Dramas of Ideas: American and European Expressionins – English Experiments

6. DRAMA OF CHARACTER – COMEDY AND FARCE
Synge – Barrie – Maugham – Lonsdale – Milne – Coward

7. NARRATIVE DRAMA – MELODRAMA

CONCLUSION