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Reliving the Trenches - Memory Plays by Veterans of the Great War (Hardcover)
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Reliving the Trenches - Memory Plays by Veterans of the Great War (Hardcover)
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In Reliving the Trenches, three plays written by returned soldiers
who served in the Great War with the Canadian Expeditionary Force
in France and Belgium appear in print for the first time. With a
critical introduction that references the author's service files to
establish the plays as memoirs, these plays are an important
addition to Canadian literature of the Great War.Important but
overlooked war memoirs that relive trench life and warfare as
experienced by combat veterans, the three plays include The P.B.I.,
written and staged in 1920 by recently returned veterans at the
University of Toronto. Parts of this play appeared in print in
serial form in 1922. Glory Hole, written in 1929 by William Stabler
Atkinson, and Dawn in Heaven, written and staged in Winnipeg in
1934 by Simon Jauvoish, have never been published. These plays
impact Canadian literature and theatre history by revealing a body
of previously unknown modernist writing, and they impact life
writing studies by showing how memoirs can be concealed behind
genre conventions. They offer fascinating details of the daily
routines of the soldiers in the trenches by bringing them back to
life in theatrical re-enactment.
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