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First World War Plays - Night Watches, Mine Eyes Have Seen, Tunnel Trench, Post Mortem, Oh What A Lovely War, The Accrington Pals, Sea and Land and Sky (Paperback)
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First World War Plays - Night Watches, Mine Eyes Have Seen, Tunnel Trench, Post Mortem, Oh What A Lovely War, The Accrington Pals, Sea and Land and Sky (Paperback)
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The First World War (1914-1918) marked a turning point in modern
history and culture and its literary legacy is vast: poetry,
fiction and memoirs abound. But the drama of the period is rarely
recognised, with only a handful of plays commonly associated with
the war."First World War Plays" draws together canonical and
lesser-known plays from the First World War to the end of the
twentieth century, tracing the ways in which dramatists have
engaged with and resisted war in their works. Spanning almost a
century of conflict, this anthology explores the changing cultural
attitudes to warfare, including the significance of the war over
time, interwar pacifism, historical revisionism and repercussions
in a divided Ireland. The collection includes writing by
combatants, as well as playwrights addressing historical events and
national memory, by both men and women, and by writers from Great
Britain, Ireland and the United States.Plays from the period, like
"Night Watches" by Allan Monkhouse (1916), "My Eyes Have Seen" by
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1918) and "Tunnel Trench" by Hubert Griffith
(1924), are joined with reflections on the war in "Post Mortem" by
Noel Coward (1930, performed 1944) and "Oh What A Lovely War" by
Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop (1963) as well as later works
"The Accrington Pals" by Peter Whelan (1982) and "The Steward of
Christendom" by Sebastian Barry (1995).Accompanied by a general
introduction by editor Mark Rawlinson, "First World War Plays" is
an ideal anthology for students, with brief commentaries on each
play and its unique treatment of the First World War.
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