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Book Synopsis0 The aim of this volume is to examine nascent movements, genre shifts, developing authors/playwrights and controversial themes as they emerged in both drama and theatre. The editors have focused on the essence of creative nexus of London from the end of the nineteenth century up to the beginning of the Great War (1914). The resultant study discusses Gordon Craig and production design, Wilde, Shaw, Synge, Pinero, Strindberg,Harley Granville Barker,Jones, Archer, Ford Madox Ford, D.H.Lawrence,Galsworthy, Sims, women playwrights, popular theatre among other topics. The work complements J.L.Styan s 3 volume Modern Drama in Theory and Practice and is more focused on late 19th/early 20th c transitions and dramatic breakthroughs than Modern British Drama of Christopher Innes.
Table of ContentsChapter 1: ‘But where’s the bloody horse?’ Humans, Horses and Historiography Chapter 2: The Reins of Power: Equine Ecological Imperialism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Chapter 3: Blood Horses: Equine Breeding, Lineage and Purity in Nineteenth-century South Africa Chapter 4: The Empire Rides Back: An African Response to the Horse in Southern Africa Chapter 5: ‘The last of the old campaigners’: Horses in the South African War, c.1899–1902 Chapter 6: ‘The Cinderella of the livestock industry’: The Changing Role of Horses in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Chapter 7: High Horses: Horses, Class and Socio-economic Change in South Africa Chapter 8: The World the Horses Made
