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Bradley Wells Bradley Wells i(A137266 works by) (a.k.a. Bradley M. Wells)
Gender: Male
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1 The Call of Canterbury : The Festival Plays of T.S. Eliot and Charles Williams (1935-1936) Bradley Wells , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Free Mind : Essays and Poems in Honour of Barry Spurr 2016; 'Whether it was coincidence, collaboration or calling, the commissioning of a new play as the centrepiece of the annual Canterbury Festival resulted in the production of some of the early twentieth century’s most significant modern religious dramas, the greatest of which being the two verse plays written for the successive years of 1935 and 1936. While T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and Charles Williams’s Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury (1936) have had contrasting commercial and critical success in the years since, their production and reception at the time constituted an apotheosis in the religious drama revival of the early twentieth century. Furthermore, in what has been little recognized to date, the events surrounding the writing and production of these two successive plays represented a key moment in the development of an important personal and professional relationship between these two writers. Canterbury not only brought the two men closer together personally, but its shared experience became the foundation for their future professional relationship, a “still point” around which their subsequent writing would turn. (Introduction)
1 Staging Masculinity Bradley Wells , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Humanities Review , November no. 49 2010; (p. 1-4)
— Review of Men at Play : Masculinities in Australian Theatre Since the 1950s Jonathan Bollen , Bruce Parr , Adrian Kiernander , 2008 single work criticism
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