{"product_id":"theatre-plays-on-british-television-9780719097928","title":"Theatre Plays on British Television","description":"\u003cp\u003e  • Publisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Theater - Direction \u0026amp; Production\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScreen plays is the first collection to explore the rich and often surprising history of theatre plays on British television. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe chapters cover a wide range of intermedial encounters, from a 1930 experimental broadcast of Luigi Pirandello's The Man with the Flower in his Mouth to the challenges and innovations of lockdown culture. Contributors explore outside broadcasts from theatres, stagings that were transplanted to a television studio or filmed on location and an immense variety of original screen versions of theatre plays. Among the major dramatists discussed are Thomas Middleton, Henrik Ibsen, Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter. The chapters also engage with the work of Peter Cheeseman's Victoria Theatre, Granada's experiment of running a combined theatre and television company, verbatim theatre from Tricycle Theatre and the National Theatre of Scotland and a radical screen version of a drama by West Indian poet Jamal Ali. The reception of Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party is analysed, and the works of William Shakespeare provide the focus of an innovative study of the ways in which recent critical editions have engaged with television adaptations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile previous books on television drama have tended to prioritise original writing for the medium, marginalising stage plays, this ground-breaking collection makes a compelling case for the centrality of the theatre to British television's past and present.","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45044971503767,"sku":"9780719097928","price":6491.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780719097928.webp?v=1767897709","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/theatre-plays-on-british-television-9780719097928","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}