Foreign Parts
German and Austrian Actors on the British Stage 1933-1960
Richard Dove
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Legenda 29 September 2017 • 202pp ISBN: 978-1-781884-73-7 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95 ISBN: 978-1-781884-74-4 (paperback, 23 April 2019) • RRP £10.99, $14.99, €13.49 ISBN: 978-1-781884-75-1 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR ModernGermanDramastudent-priced In addition to its original library hardback edition, this title is now on sale in the new student-priced Legenda paperback range. Foreign Parts offers a case study in Anglo-German relations in the theatre. How British was the British theatre during and after the Second World War? This book tells the unique story of five German-speaking actors who, after arriving as refugees from Nazi Germany, made the transition to the British stage in a period of heightened nationalism before and during World War II. While the emotional intensity of their performances won the applause of audiences and the approval of critics, their success also depended on the support of British theatre personalities – from Alec Clunes and Tyrone Guthrie to actors Sybil Thorndike and John Gielgud. The book also recounts their role in British propaganda broadcasts to Germany, including Martin Miller’s satirical impersonation of his fellow-Austrian Adolf Hitler and Lucie Mannheim’s anti-Nazi version of the popular hit ‘Lilli Marlene’. Richard Dove is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Greenwich and the author of various books on German-speaking exile in Britain. Reviews:
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Bibliography entry: Dove, Richard, Foreign Parts: German and Austrian Actors on the British Stage 1933-1960, Germanic Literatures, 15 (Legenda, 2017) First footnote reference: 35 Richard Dove, Foreign Parts: German and Austrian Actors on the British Stage 1933-1960, Germanic Literatures, 15 (Legenda, 2017), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Dove, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Dove, Richard. 2017. Foreign Parts: German and Austrian Actors on the British Stage 1933-1960, Germanic Literatures, 15 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Dove 2017: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Dove 2017: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Foreign-Parts www.mhra.org.uk/publications/gl-15 |