Village theatre
By: Mary kelly.
Series: Little Theatre series
Publisher: T. Nelson & Sons
Published: 1946
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 189
Description: Perhaps this book is less about Village Theatre than a social history of rural Britain. In any case it is a very good read and a good description of village manners and morals at the time the Welfare State was coming into being.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: I.      Dramatic Instinct; title: II.     Birth of 'Theatre'; title: III.    The Old  Comedy; title: IV.    May Games and Miracles; title: V.     Folk Tale, Folk Song and Interlude; title: VI.    Shakespeare to Restoration; title: VII.   The Husbandman Freed; title: VIII.  The Man of Many Sorrows; title: IX.    Benevolence, Charity, and Boundless Humanity; title: X.     The Awakening of Conscience; title: XI.    The Labourer Stands Upright; title: XII.   Birth of the New Play, Death of the Old; title: XIII.  Survivals of the Village Theatre; title: XIV.  The English Village Changes; title: XV.   Village Theatre in Other Lands; title: XVI.  Village Theatre in Britain; title: XVII. The Drama as the Countryman's Expression; title: XVIII. Possibilities and Experiments; title: XIX.  Technique of Village Theatre; title: XX.   Conclusions