{"product_id":"english-theatrical-avant-garde-1900-1925-hardback","title":"English Theatrical Avant-Garde 1900-1925 - Hardback","description":"\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\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\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","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45547551686894,"sku":"9780367470890","price":210.4,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/english-theatrical-avant-garde-1900-1925-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}