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"[A] fascinating volume... Recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate collections." -- Choice - September 1999
'...very though provoking reading' - Maggie B Gale, University of Birmingham
'This well-written book provides an important interpretive challenge, which both postgraduates and discerning undergraduates should find useful.' - New Theatre Quarterly
'[Rebellato] brilliantly records the experience of the Lord Chamberlain's office at attempts to subvert its homophobic, censorious power ' - Michael Billington, The Guardian
...very though provoking reading - Maggie B Gale, University of Birmingham
This well-written book provides an important interpretive challenge, which both postgraduates and discerning undergraduates should find useful. - New Theatre Quarterly
[Rebellato] brilliantly records the experience of the Lord Chamberlains office at attempts to subvert its homophobic, censorious power - Michael Billington, The Guardian
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It is said that British Drama was shockingly lifted out of the doldrums by the "revolutionary" appearance of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in May 1956. But had the theatre been as ephemeral and effeminate as the Angry Young Men claimed? Was the era of Terence Rattigan and 'Binkie' Beaumont as repressed and closeted as it seems?
In this bold and fascinating challenge to the received wisdom of the last forty years of theatrical history, Dan Rebellato uncovers a different story altogether. It is one where Britain's declining Empire and increasing panic over the "problem" of homosexuality played a crucial role in the construction of an enduring myth of the theatre. By going back to primary sources and rigorously questioning all assumptions, Rebellato has rewritten the history of the making of modern British drama.
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"[A] fascinating volume... Recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate collections." -- Choice - September 1999
'...very though provoking reading' - Maggie B Gale, University of Birmingham
'This well-written book provides an important interpretive challenge, which both postgraduates and discerning undergraduates should find useful.' - New Theatre Quarterly
'[Rebellato] brilliantly records the experience of the Lord Chamberlain's office at attempts to subvert its homophobic, censorious power ' - Michael Billington, The Guardian
...very though provoking reading - Maggie B Gale, University of Birmingham
This well-written book provides an important interpretive challenge, which both postgraduates and discerning undergraduates should find useful. - New Theatre Quarterly
[Rebellato] brilliantly records the experience of the Lord Chamberlains office at attempts to subvert its homophobic, censorious power - Michael Billington, The Guardian
Product Description
It is said that British Drama was shockingly lifted out of the doldrums by the "revolutionary" appearance of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at the Royal Court in May 1956. But had the theatre been as ephemeral and effeminate as the Angry Young Men claimed? Was the era of Terence Rattigan and 'Binkie' Beaumont as repressed and closeted as it seems?
In this bold and fascinating challenge to the received wisdom of the last forty years of theatrical history, Dan Rebellato uncovers a different story altogether. It is one where Britain's declining Empire and increasing panic over the "problem" of homosexuality played a crucial role in the construction of an enduring myth of the theatre. By going back to primary sources and rigorously questioning all assumptions, Rebellato has rewritten the history of the making of modern British drama.
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The politics of Look Back in Anger, have generally been characterised as, if not explicitly aligned to one movement or other, defiantly resistant. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
glass closet, homosexual representation, brave causes, vital theatre, theatre workers, homosexual offences, amateur work, theatre practice, own wilderness, queer community, club theatres Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Court, Arts Council, West End, Lord Chamberlain, Old Vic, New Left, English Stage Company, Lindsay Anderson, The Entertainer, George Devine, Jimmy Porter, Light Console, Third Person, Berliner Ensemble, Cecil Beaton, Charles Landstone, Chicken Soup, Board of Education, Ivor Brown, Pilgrim Trust, New Theatre, Quaint Honour, Basil Dean, Clifford Allen, New Watergate New!
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The politics of Look Back in Anger, have generally been characterised as, if not explicitly aligned to one movement or other, defiantly resistant. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
glass closet, homosexual representation, brave causes, vital theatre, theatre workers, homosexual offences, amateur work, theatre practice, own wilderness, queer community, club theatres Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Court, Arts Council, West End, Lord Chamberlain, Old Vic, New Left, English Stage Company, Lindsay Anderson, The Entertainer, George Devine, Jimmy Porter, Light Console, Third Person, Berliner Ensemble, Cecil Beaton, Charles Landstone, Chicken Soup, Board of Education, Ivor Brown, Pilgrim Trust, New Theatre, Quaint Honour, Basil Dean, Clifford Allen, New Watergate New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Look Back in Anger (Plays, Penguin) by John Osborne on 32 pages
- Blithe Spirit (Methuen Modern Plays) by Noël Coward on 5 pages
- The Deep Blue Sea (Nick Hern Books) by Terrence Rattigan on 4 pages
- The Long and the Short and the Tall (Hereford Plays) by Willis Hall on 4 pages
- The Uses of Literacy (Classics in Communication and Mass Culture Series) by Richard Hoggart on page 19, page 23, and Back Matter
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- Posting the Male: Masculinities in Post-war and Contemporary British Literature (Genus 3) (Genus: Gender in Modern Culture) by Daniel Lea on page 34
- The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Peter Raby on page 42
- Theorizing Practice: Redefining Theatre History (Redefining British Theatre History) by Peter Holland on page 226
- Post-War British Drama: Looking Back in Gender by Michelen Wandor in Back Matter
- Post-War British Drama: Looking Back in Gender by Michelen Wandor in Back Matter
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