Screen LibraryTwenty-first century drama : what happens now /
Creates a broad, rigorously critical framework for approaching the drama of this period, including its forms, playwrights, companies, institutions, collaborative projects, and directors. The collection has a deliberately British bent, examining established playwrights such as Churchill, Brenton, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Creates a broad, rigorously critical framework for approaching the drama of this period, including its forms, playwrights, companies, institutions, collaborative projects, and directors. The collection has a deliberately British bent, examining established playwrights such as Churchill, Brenton, and Hare alongside a new generation of writers including Stephens, Prebble, Kirkwood, Bartlett, and Kelly. Simultaneously international in scope, it engages with significant new work from the US, Japan, India, Australia, and the Netherlands, to reflect a twenty-first century context that is fundament |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 348 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-338) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781137484024 1137484020 |
| Index Number: | PN2190 |
| CLC: | I106.3 |
| Call Number: | I106.3/T971-1 |
| Contents: | Introduction: what happens now / Siân Adiseshiah and Louise LePage. Part 1 Beyond mostmodernism: changing perspectives on drama : Room for realism? / Elaine Aston -- Beyond belief: British theatre and the "re-enchantment of the world" / Chris Megson -- The emancipated Shakespeare: or, what you will / Stephen Bottoms -- The twenty-first-century history play / Paola Botham. Part 2 Austerity and class returns : Back to the future: gendering the economy in twenty-first-century drama / Louis Owen -- Translating austerity: theatrical responses to the financial crisis / Mark O'Thomas -- "Chavs," " |