The English Theatrical Avant-Garde 1900-1925 - 9780367470890

Taylor & Francis

The English Theatrical Avant-Garde 1900-1925Author(s): Simon Shepherd\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367470890, 978-0367470890\nSynopsis\nThe English Theatrical Avant-Garde, [tel] 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 weve ever thought.\n\nWhere 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.