The changing language of modern English drama, 1945-2005
By: Kate Dorney
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780230013292
Description: "This book contains an account of language and drama between 1945 and 2005, synthesizing linguistic and dramatic knowledge in order to illuminate the ways in which anxieties and attitudes toward language manifest themselves in discourses on and around English theatre of the period, and how these anxieties and attitudes reflect back through the theatre of this period"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-247) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Language, Communication and Ideology; title: Fetishising Communication on Stage; title: 1945-1955: The 'Dissociation of Sensibility' and 'the Jewelled Epigram'; title: 1956-1964: Moribund and Vital; Demotic and Epic; title: 1964-1975: Revolution On and Off Stage; title: 1976-1989: Staging the Nation; title: 1990-2000: Talk is Cheap; title: Coda: Likelike-ese Since 2000; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index .