'A shameful conquest of itself': Images from the Empire in post-war British drama

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Title 'A shameful conquest of itself': Images from the Empire in post-war British drama
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Abstract/Description An overview of mostly mainstage British drama from the 1950s to the 1970s, concerned with the representation of the decline of the British Empire. Focuses on the movement of Empire in post war Britain from metaphorical to objective concern in the work of Osborne, Hare, Bond, Churchill, Arden, Friel, Brenton and others.
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Source Australasian Drama Studies, ADSA, VIC
Volume 1
Issue 1
Page 89 - 108
Date Issued October 1982
Language English
ISSN B004H3LL2W
Citation Jeremy Ridgman, 'A shameful conquest of itself': Images from the Empire in post-war British drama, Australasian Drama Studies, 1, 1, October 1982, 89 - 108
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Resource Identifier 60989