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Book SynopsisScreen plays is a ground-breaking volume that
chronicles the rich and surprising history of stage plays produced for the small screen between 1930 and today. The collection makes a compelling case for the centrality of the theatre to the past and present of British television drama.
Table of ContentsIntroduction – Amanda Wrigley and John Wyver
1 Stages and the small screen: theatre plays as television drama since 1930 – John Wyver
2 A duchess, a shoemaker and a knight: early modern drama, early British television – Lisa Ward
3 ‘This genuine theatre condition’: Basil Dean and the 1938 BBC outside broadcast of J. B. Priestley’s When We Are Married – Victoria Lowe
4 ‘Our other Shakespeare’: Middleton’s tragedies on television, 1965–2009 – Susanne Greenhalgh
5 A revival, a reworking and an original: the Harold Pinter season on Theatre 625 (BBC2, 1967) – Amanda Wrigley and Billy Smart
6 Regional drama from stage to screen: television adaptations by Peter Cheeseman’s Victoria Theatre company – Lez Cooke
7 Granada Television’s experiment with The Stables Theatre Company, 1969–70 – John Wyver
8 From radical Black theatre production to television adaptation: Black Feet in the Show (BBC, 1974) – Sally Shaw
9 Cedric Messina: producing theatrical classics with a decorative aesthetic – Billy Smart
10 Abigail’s Party: ‘It’s not a question of ignorance, Laurence, it’s a question of taste’ – Ruth Adams
11 Screen and stage space in Beckett’s theatre plays on television – Jonathan Bignell
12 Television’s natural disposition? An analysis of Naturalism and performance in relation to BBC productions of Ibsen’s plays – Stephen Lacey
13 Remediating the real: verbatim plays on television in the new millennium – Cyrielle Garson
14 The impact of television on scholarly editions of Shakespeare’s plays – Neil Taylor
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