{"product_id":"the-adelphi-players-the-theatre-of-persons-9780415270267","title":"The Adelphi Players: The Theatre of Persons","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Cecil Davies | Peter Billingham\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCecil Davies' \u003cem\u003eThe Adelphi Players: The Theatre of Persons\u003c\/em\u003e represents a uniquely interesting contribution to our understanding of touring British theatre in the mid-twentieth-century, post-war period. This book will interest everyone - whether student, academic or general reader - who wants to know more about issues concerning the recent history of British theatre. In their values and aims, the Adelphi Players pre-empted many of the post-war developments that we associate with the non-commercial, fringe and community theatre movement. In Richard Heron Ward founder of the Adelphi-Players, we encounter a dramatist, novelist, essayist and poet who has been unusually neglected in terms of our appreciation of the English literature of the broad left in the 1930s,40s and50s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Adelphi Players\u003c\/em\u003e has been edited by Peter Billingham, who has also provided an introduction placing Ward and the Adelphi players in the wider social, cultural and ideological context.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46929486119063,"sku":"9780415270267","price":10902.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780415270267.webp?v=1771600043","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-adelphi-players-the-theatre-of-persons-9780415270267","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}