Modernists and the theatre : the drama of W.B Yeats, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf

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Modernists and the theatre : the drama of W.B Yeats, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf

James Moran

Methuen Drama, 2022

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-231) and index

収録内容

  • W.B. Yeats: Theater and Shakespearean elitism
  • Ezra Pound: Theater and anti-Semitism
  • D.H. Lawrence: Theater and the working class
  • James Joyce: Theater and sexaul non-conformity
  • T.S. Eliot: Theater and popularity
  • Virginia Woolf: Theater and gender equality

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内容説明

Modernists and the Theatre examines how six key modernists, who are best known as poets and novelists, engaged with the realm of theatre and performance. Drawing on a wealth of unfamiliar archival material and fresh readings of neglected documents, James Moran demonstrates how these literary figures interacted with the playhouse, exploring W.B. Yeats's earliest playwriting, Ezra Pound's onstage acting, the links between James Joyce's and D.H. Lawrence's sense of drama, T.S. Eliot's thinking about theatrical popularity, and the feminist politics of Virginia Woolf's small-scale theatrical experimentation. While these modernists often made hostile comments about drama, this volume highlights how the writers were all repeatedly drawn to the form. While Yeats and Pound were fascinated by the controlling aspect of theatre, other authors felt inspired by theatre as a democratic forum in which dissenting voices could be heard. Some of these modernists used theatre to express and explore identities that had previously been sidelined in the public forum, including the working-class mining communities of Lawrence's plays, the sexually unconventional and non-binary gender expressions of Joyce's fiction, and the female experience that Woolf sought to represent and discuss in terms of theatrical performance. These writers may be known primarily for creating non-dramatic texts, but this book demonstrates the importance of the theatre to the activities of these authors, and shows how a sense of the theatrical repeatedly motivated the wider thinking and writing of six major figures in literary history.

目次

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. W.B. Yeats: Theatre and Shakespearean Elitism 2. Ezra Pound: Theatre and Anti-Semitism 3. D.H. Lawrence: Theatre and the Working Class 4. James Joyce: Theatre and Sexual/Gender Non-Conformity 5. T.S. Eliot: Theatre and Popularity 6. Virginia Woolf: Theatre and Gender Equality Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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