Religion in Modern English Drama

Gerald Weales

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1961

Religion in Modern English Drama

Gerald Weales

In the series Anniversary Collection

https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512819243

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About this book

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 Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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"Weales provides the first comprehensive account of the emergence of the modern religious drama, his survey of plays dealing with religion over the last eighty years filling in a background that has hitherto been overlooked."—Review of English Studies

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IV
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
PART ONE. Commercial Drama
I. The Legacy of Henry Arthur Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
II. Barrett, the Bible, and the Big Shows Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
III. Sentimental Supernaturalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
IV. A Doctrine of Substitution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
PART TWO. Church Drama
V. Up from Everyman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
VI. Canterbury, Chichester, and the Religious Drama Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
VII. Laurence Housman and John Masefield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
VIII Charles Williams and Dorothy Sayers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
PART THREE: THE POST-WAR YEARS
IX. T. S. Eliot and Christopher Fry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
X. The Mercury Poets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
XI. Commercial Drama: A Reprise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
XII. The Church Circuit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
XIII. The Division and the Prospect Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
Appendix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Copyright year: 1961
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 336
Keywords: Cultural Studies; Literature

eBook

Published: January 9, 2018
ISBN: 9781512819243