First World War Plays: Night Watches, Mine Eyes Have Seen, Tunnel Trench, Post Mortem, Oh What a Lovely War, the Accrington Pals, Sea and Lan

by Mark Rawlinson

Book Overview

The First World War (1914-1918) marked a turning point in modern history and culture and its literary legacy is vast: poetry, fiction and memoirs abound. But the drama of the period is rarely recognised, with only a handful of plays commonly associated with the war.

First World War Plays draws together canonical and lesser-known plays from the First World War to the end of the twentieth century, tracing the ways in which dramatists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472523849
• ISBN13: 9781472523846
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 8.2"