The Changing Language of Modern English Drama 1945–2005

1. Introduction
Kate Dorney

2. Language, Communication and Ideology
Kate Dorney

3. Fetishising Communication on Stage
Kate Dorney

4. 1945–1955: The ‘Dissociation of Sensibility’ and ‘the Jewelled Epigram’
Kate Dorney

5. 1956–1964: Moribund and Vital; Demotic and Epic
Kate Dorney

6. 1964–1975: Revolution On and Off Stage
Kate Dorney

7. 1976–1989: Staging the Nation
Kate Dorney

8. 1990–2000: Talk Is Cheap
Kate Dorney

9. Coda: Lifelike-ese since 2000
Kate Dorney

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Theatre and Performance Studies, Communication Studies, Linguistics, general, Theatre History, Sociolinguistics