03152nam a22004935i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001600153072001500169072002300184072001500207100007700222245009100299250001800390264007900408300004300487336002600530337002600556338003600582347002400618490005200642505034300694520115201037650001702189650001602206650002202222650003802244650001102282650003302293650002102326650003402347650001102381710003402392773002602426776003602452776003602488776003602524830005202560856004602612978-3-031-52284-0DE-He21320251030111504.0cr nn 008mamaa240307s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315228407 a10.1007/978-3-031-52284-02doi 4aPN1660-1693 7aAN2bicssc 7aPER0110302bisacsh 7aATD2thema1 aKojecky, Roger.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aCoward the Dramatisth[electronic resource] :bMorals and Manners /cby Roger Kojecky.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXII, 188 p. 1 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aBernard Shaw and His Contemporaries,x2634-582X0 aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Love and Marriage -- Chapter 3: Morals and Manners -- Chapter 4: Comedies of Realism and Romance -- Chapter 5: The Theatre of War -- Chapter 6: Deeper Waters -- Chapter 7: Drama and Contemporary Society -- Chapter 8: Post-War Drama and Fiction -- Chapter 9: Last Plays -- Chapter 10: The Entertainer.  aDiscussions of Coward’s achievement in the theatre between 1920 and 1966 have tended to stay with the colourful biography. The more analytical literary approach adopted here places Coward’s success in its wider theatrical context, making the connections with the work of other dramatists. He developed his technique according to what worked with theatre audiences. Taking up the well-made play, he brought in a more colloquial dialogue, explored, for instance, the morality and psychology of marriage and free love, and frequently exploited the dramatic possibilities of characters grouped into two camps. The book considers both the ‘pleasant’ and ‘unpleasant’ plays (to use the Shavian terms), and the episodic patriotic plays. It Includes Coward’s ambivalent approach to the ‘theatre of war’ in the 20th century. (123) Roger Kojecky: After an Oxford University English Faculty D. Phil. he held teaching positions in Tokyo and London University (lecturing on drama). He has been Secretary of the Christian Literary Studies Group, Oxford, and edits The Glass, covering a range of academic literature with articles and reviews. . 0aPlaywriting. 0aDramatists. 0aTheaterxHistory. 0aLiterature, Modernx20th century. 0aDrama.14aPlaywrights and Playwriting.24aTheatre History.24aTwentieth-Century Literature.24aDrama.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303152283308iPrinted edition:z978303152285708iPrinted edition:z9783031522864 0aBernard Shaw and His Contemporaries,x2634-582X40uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52284-0