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 back through the theatre of this period.

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Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

Kate Dorney

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KATE DORNEY is the Curator of Modern& Contemporary Performance at the Victoria& Albert Museum, London, UK, and was the curator in charge of realising the Theatre& Performance galleries there. She has published and lectured widely on modern and contemporary theatre in the field of history and historiography and performance documentation.

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Book Title: The Changing Language of Modern English Drama 1945–2005
Authors: Kate Dorney
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245211
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-01329-2Published: 29 September 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-24521-1Published: 29 September 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 250
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Theatre and Performance Studies, Communication Studies, Linguistics, general, Theatre History, Sociolinguistics

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