Religion in Modern English Drama /

Religion in Modern English Drama / / Gerald Weales.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Ann...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
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Weales, Gerald,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Anniversary Collection
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Contents
  • PART ONE. Commercial Drama
  • I. The Legacy of Henry Arthur Jones
  • II. Barrett, the Bible, and the Big Shows
  • III. Sentimental Supernaturalism
  • IV. A Doctrine of Substitution
  • PART TWO. Church Drama
  • V. Up from Everyman
  • VI. Canterbury, Chichester, and the Religious Drama Society
  • VII. Laurence Housman and John Masefield
  • VIII Charles Williams and Dorothy Sayers
  • PART THREE: THE POST-WAR YEARS
  • IX. T. S. Eliot and Christopher Fry
  • X. The Mercury Poets
  • XI. Commercial Drama: A Reprise
  • XII. The Church Circuit
  • XIII. The Division and the Prospect
  • Appendix
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Index

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