1. Introduction: Rediscovering the Theatre of the First World War; Andrew Maunder



PART I: MOBILISATION AND PROPAGANDA



2. 'This Unhappy Nation': War on the Stage in 1914; Steve Nicholson



3. Reclaiming Shakespeare. 1914-1918; Anselm Heinrich



4. On the edge of town: Melodrama and Suburban Theatre in Brixton, 1915; Andrew Maunder



PART II: WOMEN AND WAR



5. 'From sex-war to factory floor': Theatrical Depictions of Women's Work during the First World War; Sos Eltis



6. Edith Craig and The Pioneer Players: London's International Art Theatre in a `Khaki-clad and Khaki-minded World'; Katharine Cockin



7. `A Sweet Tribute to Her Memory': War-time Edith Cavell Plays and Films; Veronica Kelly



PART III: POPULAR THEATRE



8. ''The Theatre of the Flappers?: Gender, Spectatorship and the 'womanisation' of Theatre 1914-1918'; Viv Gardner



9. `[N]o more jokes'?: Metropolitan Music Hall and Variety Theatre; Simon Featherstone



10. British Cinema, Regulation and the War Effort ; Emma Hanna



PART IV: ALTERNATIVE SPACES



11. A City's Toys: Theatre in Birmingham 1914-1918; Claire Cochrane



12. Entertaining the Anzacs: Performance for and by Australian and New Zealand troops on leave in London, 1916-1919; Ailsa Grant-Ferguson



13. Lena Ashwell: Touring Concert Parties and Arts Advocacy, 1914-1919; Margaret Leask.



14. Palliative Pantomimes: Entertainment in Prisoner-of-war Camps; Victor Emeljanow



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Index