Screen plays : theatre plays on British television /: theatre plays on British television. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Amanda Wrigley, John Wyver.
• Editors: Wrigley, Amanda; Wyver, John
• Contents: Introduction – 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; Index
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 791.4572; Television plays, English -- History and criticism; Television and theater -- Great Britain -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526115959; 9781526115942
• Related ISBNs: 9780719097928
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