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British playwrights, 1880-1956 : a research and production sourcebook / edited by William W. Demastes and Katherine E. Kelly.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--20th century--Dictionaries.
- English drama.
- English drama--20th century--Bio-bibliography--Dictionaries.
- English drama--19th century--Bio-bibliography--Dictionaries.
- Dramatists, English--20th century--Biography--Dictionaries.
- Dramatists, English.
- Dramatists, English--19th century--Biography--Dictionaries.
- English drama--19th century--Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 457 pages)
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Includes entries for numerous British playwrights active from 1880 through 1956. Entries provide biographical sketches, descriptions of theatrical reception, and assessments of playwrights' careers. Also includes information on archival sources.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""William Archer""; ""W. H. Auden""; ""Sir James Matthew Barrie""; ""Sir Max Beerbohm""; ""Gordon Bottomley""; ""James Bridie (Osborne Henry Mavor)""; ""Harold Brighouse""; ""Noel Coward""; ""Clemence Dane (Winifred Ashton)""; ""T. S. Eliot""; ""Christopher Fry""; ""John Galsworthy""; ""William Schwenck Gilbert""; ""Harley Granville-Barker""; ""Graham Greene""; ""Cicely Hamilton""; ""St. John Hankin""; ""W. Stanley Houghton""; ""Laurence Housman""; ""Henry Arthur Jones""; ""D. H. Lawrence""; ""John Masefield""; ""W. Somerset Maugham""; ""Allan Monkhouse""
- ""Arthur Wing Pinero""""J. B. Priestley""; ""Terence Rattigan""; ""Elizabeth Robins""; ""George Bernard Shaw""; ""R. C. Sherriff""; ""Alfred Sutro""; ""Oscar Wilde""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index of Names""; ""Index of Titles""; ""About the Editors and Contributors""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-427) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 979-84-00-62168-0
- 1-4294-7326-6
- 0-313-03265-3
- OCLC:
- 230823856
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