Titlebook: British Theatre and the Great War, 1914 - 1919; New Perspectives Andrew Maunder Book 2015 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2

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Introduction: Rediscovering First World War Theatree years that followed, attacks on work that came to be seen as jingoistic and self-serving rapidly displaced war-time theatre as a something worthy of admiration, and its entertainments were re-cast as shallow and meaningless, ‘childish antics’ as George Bernard Shaw labelled them in 1919.

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Book 2015offers new models for exploring the topic in an accessible, jargon-free way, and it shows how theatrical entertainment of the time can be seen as the`missing link’ in the study of First World War writing..

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Chemische Technologie in Einzeldarstellungen taken place over the last one hundred years, and which the centenary commemorations beginning in 2014 have thrown into sharp relief. In the immediate aftermath of the war, the theatre industry was heralded as an integral part of the war effort, an example of the way Britain and her empire had pulle

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,Implikationen für die weitere Forschung,He asserted that ‘it would be […] foolish to deny that […] the London playhouses for the most part sank into becoming the purveyors of the cheapest entertainment’.. Later the distinguished . likewise proclaimed that ‘it was not only problem plays that were swept off the board, but nearly all plays o

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-88490-9front as described in Siegfried Sassoon’s poem ‘Blighters’ (1917). As other contributors to this book also note, this poem is often used specifically to highlight the dubious pleasures derived by large audiences from performances associated with comedy, dancing women and ragtime music.. However, the

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-81768-6tenced to death by firing squad by a military tribunal of the German General Government of occupied Belgium. Their charge was ‘treason in time of war’ under Paragraph 58 of the German Military Code, which prohibited ‘conducting soldiers to the enemy’. Under a decree of June 1915 issued by General Mo