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The Changing Language of Modern English Drama 1945–2005

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Kate Dorney

    1. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Kate Dorney
    Pages 1-19

  3. Language, Communication and Ideology

    • Kate Dorney
    Pages 20-45

  4. Fetishising Communication on Stage

    • Kate Dorney
    Pages 46-71

  5. 1945–1955: The ‘Dissociation of Sensibility’ and ‘the Jewelled Epigram’

    • Kate Dorney
    Pages 72-105

  6. 1956–1964: Moribund and Vital; Demotic and Epic

    • Kate Dorney
    Pages 106-134

  7. 1964–1975: Revolution On and Off Stage

    • Kate Dorney
    Pages 135-164

  8. 1976–1989: Staging the Nation

    • Kate Dorney
    Pages 165-195

  9. 1990–2000: Talk Is Cheap

    • Kate Dorney
    Pages 196-221

  10. Coda: Lifelike-ese since 2000

    • Kate Dorney
    Pages 222-225

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 226-250
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About this book

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 time, and how these anxieties and attitudes reflect back through the theatre of this period.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

    Kate Dorney

About the author

KATE DORNEY is the Curator of Modern& Contemporary Performance at the Victoria& Albert Museum, London, UK, and was the curator in charge of realising the Theatre& Performance galleries there. She has published and lectured widely on modern and contemporary theatre in the field of history and historiography and performance documentation.

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