An account of language and drama between 1945 and 2005, synthesizing linguistic and dramatic knowledge in order to illuminate the ways in which anxieties and attitudes toward language manifest themselves in discourses on and around English theatre of the time, and how these anxieties and attitudes reflect backthrough the theatre of this period. INDICE: Introduction - Language, Communication and Ideology - Fetishising Communication on Stage - The 'Dissociation of Sensibility' and 'the Jewelled Epigram': 1945-1955 - Moribund and Vital; Demotic and Epic: 1956-1964 - Revolution On and Off Stage: 1964-1975 - Staging the Nation: 1976-1989 - Talk is Cheap: 1990-2000 - Coda: Likelike-ese Since 2000 - Notes - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-01329-2
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha Publicación: 29/09/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés