caa a22 4500 388093633 CHVBK 20180307125258.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266464X00012628 doi S0266464X00012628 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266464X00012628 Stokes John Prodigals and Profligates; or, a Short History of Modern British Drama [Elektronische Daten] [John Stokes] In 1996 John Stokes was appointed to the first endowed Chair in Modern British Literature at King's College, London, where English has been taught since the 1830s. In this version of his inaugural lecture, delivered on 6 November 1997, he traces the transformations undergone by the figure of the prodigal son in the drama of the last hundred years and argues for recognition of the part played by actors in determining the course of theatrical history. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/1(1999-02), 26-38 0266-464X 15:1<26 1999 15 NTQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00012628 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X00012628 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Stokes John NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 15/1(1999-02), 26-38 0266-464X 15:1<26 1999 15 NTQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge