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Informationen zum Autor Philip Edwards worked at The Chalk Face for 39 years prior to his retirement in 2013. He attended Ferndale Grammar School; where he was introduced to the story of The Bando in the Dark. His children must be approaching that stage in life where they can pass the tale on to the next generation. Together with his wife Lynda, they both share the love of folk music and Morris dance. Klappentext This imprint is established to publish in paperback for an individual readership the Press's most outstanding original monographs. Zusammenfassung This imprint is established to publish in paperback for an individual readership the Press's most outstanding original monographs. These are titles which would normally appear in specialist hardback editions only! but whose quality and general academic importance justify their special promotion in this prestige imprint. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates; Preface; 1. Introduction: the King's threshold; Part I. Shakespeare's England: 2. A superfluous sort of men: the rise and fall of the professional theatre; 3. Astraea and Chrisoganus; 4. Nation and empire; 5. The hidden King: Shakespeare's history plays; 6. Ben Jonson; 7. The royal pretenders: Ford's Perkin Warbeck and Massinger's Believe As You List; Part II. Yeats's Ireland: 8. Our Irish theatre; 9. A play-house in the waste: George Moore and the Irish theatre; 10. Nothing is concluded Sean O'Casey, Denis Johnston and Brendan Behan; Notes; Index.
