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In Reliving the Trenches, three plays written by returned soldiers who served in the Great War with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium appear in print for the first time. With a critical introduction that references the author's service files to establish the plays as memoirs, these plays are an important addition to Canadian literature of the Great War.Important but overlooked war memoirs that relive trench life and warfare as experienced by combat veterans, the three plays include
The P.B.I., written and staged in 1920 by recently returned veterans at the University of Toronto. Parts of this play appeared in print in serial form in 1922.
Glory Hole, written in 1929 by William Stabler Atkinson, and
Dawn in Heaven, written and staged in Winnipeg in 1934 by Simon Jauvoish, have never been published.
These plays impact Canadian literature and theatre history by revealing a body of previously unknown modernist writing, and they impact life writing studies by showing how memoirs can be concealed behind genre conventions. They offer fascinating details of the daily routines of the soldiers in the trenches by bringing them back to life in theatrical re-enactment.
Table des matières
- 1. Critical and Historical Introduction
- 2. Editorial Principles
- 3. Introduction to The P.B.I.
- 5. The P. B. I., or, Mademoiselle of Bully Grenay by H. B. Scudamore, H.W. Downie W.L. McGeary and H.R. Dillon
- 6. Introduction to Glory Hole
- 7. Glory Hole: A Play of 1914-18 by William Stabler Atkinson
- 8. Introduction to Dawn In Heaven
- 9. Dawn In Heaven by Simon Jauvoish
- Appendix One: The P.B.I. Program
- Appendix Two: War Service of The P.B.I. Authors and Cast
- Appendix Three: 'A Canadian Volunteer's Last Prayer,' a poem by Simon Jauvoish
- Works Cited
A propos de l'auteur
Alan Filewod was formerly Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, where he specialized in Canadian drama and political theatre A former editor of Canadian Theatre Review, he has served as president of the Canadian Association for Theatre Studies, and the Association for Canadian and Quebecois Literatures.
Résumé
Presents in print for the first time three plays written by soldiers who served in the Great War with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium. With a critical introduction that references the authors’ service files to establish the plays as memoirs, these plays are an important addition to Canadian literature of the Great War.
