Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s
- The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Poetry
- Chapter 2 The Literary Novel
- Chapter 3 Drama
- Chapter 4 Publishing and Periodicals
- Chapter 5 The Middlebrow and Popular
- Chapter 6 Modernism
- Chapter 7 Communism and the Working Class
- Chapter 8 Empire
- Chapter 9 Travel
- Chapter 10 The Regional and the Rural
- Chapter 11 The Queer 1930s
- Chapter 12 Remembering and Imagining War
- Chapter 13 Fascism and Anti-Fascism
- Chapter 14 Fashioning the 1930s
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
Chapter 3 - Drama
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2019
- The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s
- The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Poetry
- Chapter 2 The Literary Novel
- Chapter 3 Drama
- Chapter 4 Publishing and Periodicals
- Chapter 5 The Middlebrow and Popular
- Chapter 6 Modernism
- Chapter 7 Communism and the Working Class
- Chapter 8 Empire
- Chapter 9 Travel
- Chapter 10 The Regional and the Rural
- Chapter 11 The Queer 1930s
- Chapter 12 Remembering and Imagining War
- Chapter 13 Fascism and Anti-Fascism
- Chapter 14 Fashioning the 1930s
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
Summary
In 1938, Stephen Spender imagined a ‘revolution in the ideas of drama’, a theatre that could both deal with the complex socio-politics of the decade and take on new aesthetic challenges. The trouble, of course, was what this drama might look like in practice. In fact, in addressing the multifarious artistic and political disputes of this period, drama in the 1930s resists easy critical definition, residing in a liminal sense betwixt and between positions, terminology, and aesthetics. It can be read as highbrow, lowbrow, or middlebrow, with many individual examples flitting between these permeable categories.
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