Kosok, Heinz
The Theatre of War
1. Introduction
Heinz Kosok
Part I. Theatres of War: Aspects of Subject Matter
2. Foreshadowing the War
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3. Front-Line Plays
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4. The Home Front
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5. The Return of the Soldier
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6. Departure — Combat — Return: A Soldier’s Career
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7. A Different Kind of War: The Great War in Ireland
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8. The Aftermath of the War
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9. Foreshadowing Another War
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10. Fantastic Locations
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11. Intellectual Debates
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Part II. Staging the War: Aspects of Presentation
12. Realism versus Reality
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13. Realistic Ghost Plays
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14. Symbolic Generalisation
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15. The Allegorical War
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16. Parables
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17. Expressionism
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18. The Documentary Mode
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19. The War in Verse
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20. The Comic Side of the War
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21. An Unconventional Solution
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Part III. Engaging Intellect or Emotions: Aspects of Attitude
22. Nothing but the Truth
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23. The Patriotic Appeal
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24. Hun-Bashing
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25. Pacifism
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26. Disillusionment
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27. Another War to End All Wars?
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28. Hope against Hope
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Part IV. Popular Failures and Successes: Aspects of Reception
29. The West End
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30. Professional Theatre in the Provinces
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31. The Amateur-Theatre Movement
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Part V. ‘Good’ versus ‘Bad’ War Plays: Aspects of Evaluation
32. Literary Standards
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33. ‘Literary’ versus ‘Historical’ Evaluation
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Part VI. British and Irish Plays about the First World War: Two Checklists
34. Alphabetical Listing by Author
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35. Chronological Listing
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Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Theatre and Performance Studies, Theatre History, History of Britain and Ireland, Twentieth-Century Literature
- Author(s)
- Kosok, Heinz
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2007
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 293 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230590649
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-35780-2