03540nam a22005775i 4500 978-3-031-52284-0 DE-He213 20251030111504.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240307s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031522840 978-3-031-52284-0 10.1007/978-3-031-52284-0 doi PN1660-1693 AN bicssc PER011030 bisacsh ATD thema Kojecky, Roger. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 72572 Coward the Dramatist [electronic resource] : Morals and Manners / by Roger Kojecky. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XII, 188 p. 1 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries, 2634-582X Chapter 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. Discussions 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. . Playwriting. 69053 Dramatists. 69054 Theater History. 66689 Literature, Modern 20th century. Drama. Playwrights and Playwriting. 69055 Theatre History. 66693 Twentieth-Century Literature. Drama. SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031522833 Printed edition: 9783031522857 Printed edition: 9783031522864 Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries, 2634-582X 68555 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52284-0 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 58157 58157