Volume 1 No.2 - 1996

• L'Esprit gaulois David Trotter

   

• Women playwrights on the London stage Maggie Gale
  A head-on confrontation with the issue of feminist theatres, concentrating on the work of those who would normally be excluded from such a category. She concentrates on G.B. Stern's The Man Who Plays the Piper and Sylvia Rayman's Women of Twilight.

   

• The rise and fall of the Reithian Sunday Christopher McCullough
  This article attempts to articulate the nature of the early years of BBC television under the management of John Reith, with particular reference to the evolution of Sunday broadcasting. It argues that this combined Reith's own calvinistic attitudes with liberal humanistic ideologies that may be traced back to Matthew Arnold. The 'Reithian Sunday' is seen to serve as a paradigm for the dissemination of the myth of an essential 'Englishness' in the relationship between secular and spiritual edification.

   

• Regionalism in Italy Anna Bull
  An analysis of several diverse factors on the regional question in Italy. These include disillusion with central government as a result of political scandal and corruption, the problem of underdevelopment in southern Italy, and popular support for institutional change, embracing regional reform. The unpredictability of the Italian political landscape in the 1990s makes predictions about the nature of such reform extremely hazardous.

   

• The Russian Orthodox Church Peter Scorer