Began in the last decade of the Victorian era and captured the optimism, energy and good humor of the new century and the Edwardian era, as well as providing comfort during the First World War
What is the Edwardian musical comedy?
100
Caused 80,000 cases of shell shock in British soldiers.
What is World War One?
100
Results in large amount of time spent waiting on the battle field.
What is trench warfare?
100
Changed the way people listened to music.
What is the BBC Radio?
200
By the end of the 1920s critics wondered if this would replace live theater altogether.
What is motion picture?
200
The psychological disturbance that results from being buried alive or exposed to heavy bombardment
What is shell shock?
200
Irony as a main literary device, soldier's Point of View, and the beginning of Modernism.
What are thematic outcomes of the war?
200
The length of time the BBC took to broadcast plays, concerts of music, talk, and variety programs.
What is less than a year?
300
Replaced the Edwardian musical comedy.
What are American musicals and comedies by Noël Coward and Ivor Novello?
300
Place for servicemen suffering from shell shock.
What is Netley Hospital?
300
British Soldier, known for realistic style, wrote on horrors of trench & gas warfare, endured many war injuries, resulting in "shell-shock". Intended to publish book of poetry, but killed in action on November 4, 1918.
Who is Wilfred Owen?
300
The sport that was first broadcasted over the air.
What is Rugby?
400
Caused outrage and riots when it was first performed in Dublin in 1907.
What is The Playboy of the Western World?
400
Unsympathetic and greeted with silence.
What is the treatment of shell shocked soldiers?
400
British Soldier, heavily influenced by Keats and other Romantics, and enlisted in war because he was out of work poet.
Who is Isaac Rosenberg?
400
The name of the newspaper the British Government produced during the General Strike of 1926.
What is British Gazette?
500
Begun an attempt to revive poetic drama with Sweeney Agonistes in 1932.
Who is T. S. Eliot?
500
Hypnosis, rest, and the "talking cure"
What was the treatment for shell shock once doctors realized it was a psychological disorder instead of physical?
500
Wrote to boost the morale of the wounded soldiers and was known to write about specific patients. Deeply affected by the war.