1997

Enchanted Evenings

Preface Overture Introduction: Setting the Stage Act I: Before Rodgers & Hammerstein (contents below) Act II: The Broadway Musical after Oklahoma! (contents below) Synopses Appendices A: Sources, Published Librettos, and Vocal Scores B: Long Runs 1920s-1980s C: The Forty Longest-Running Book Musicals on Broadway Appendices D-R: as per contents below

The Battle for History

Controversy and the Second World War Histories of the Second World War Biographies Campaigns The Brains and Sinews of War Occupation and Resistance

Tales of Sir William Wallace

Introduction – Wallace Goes Fishing Wallace in Ayr Loudon Hill and After Wallace in the Lennox – His Mistress in Perth Betrays Him Wallace Slays Fawdoun – Wallace Falls in Love Wallace Marries Mirren – Heselrig Murders Mirren – Wallace is Revenged in Heselrig and the English – The Battle of Biggar – Wallace is …

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Religion in Victorian Britain: V – Culture and Empire

Introduction: Victorian Religion in Context   John Wolffe Part I: Essays ‘Male and Female He Created them’: Men, Women and the Question of Gender   F. Knight ‘Praise to the Holiest in the Height’: Hymns and Church Music   J. Wolffe Foreign Missions and Missionaries in Victorian Britain   T. Thomas Rethinking the Missionary Position: Bishop Colenso of Natal   …

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Uniforms of the Third Reich

This book was purchased for costume research on an as yet unrealised theatrical project referencing both British and fascist styles of military dress. Army The Parade Dress Uniform of an NCO of the Infantry “Regiment Großdeutschland” (from 1939; Melchior, Kassel) Infantory NCO’s dress visor cap Parade dress vulcan fiber double decal helmet made by EREL …

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