Prefatory note; 1 Introduction; 2 Musical comedy and musical anarchy; 3 Pantomime and tradition; 4 Variety on the halls; 5 War and the legitimate theatre; 6 A classic theatre?; 7 Fashionable audiences and the opera; 8 Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index
Summary
British Theatre in the Great War deals with a theatrical phase customarily dismissed by those charting twentieth-century developments. What becomes clear is that assessment by unsuitable literary criteria has masked the importance of the war years in Brit
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-342) and index