{"product_id":"the-english-theatrical-avant-garde-1900-1925-simon-shepherd-9780367470852","title":"The English Theatrical Avant-Garde 1900-1925","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\u003e\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\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon Shepherd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367470853\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367470852\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/30\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d","brand":"Simon Shepherd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44123302723839,"sku":"9780367470852","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_101c5df2-7609-40d6-a105-2c65caf8fd58.jpg?v=1687430110","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-english-theatrical-avant-garde-1900-1925-simon-shepherd-9780367470852","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}