British And Irish Women Dramatists Since 1958

Author : Trevor R. Griffiths,Margaret Llewellyn-Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0335096026

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British and Irish Women Dramatists Since 1958 by Trevor R. Griffiths,Margaret Llewellyn-Jones Pdf

This is a critical reference guide to the important contribution made by women-writers to the renaissance of British drama since the late 1950s. The coverage ranges from collective work, women's companies and cabaret through to traditional single author plays. The book chronicles low-budget, short-running fringe shows as well as London productions of big name authors. It explores writing by lesbians and by black women, and examines in detail women's theatre in Wales, Scotland and Ireland (as well as England). It draws on both theoretical issues in feminist criticism, and political developments in the women's movement.

Author : Trevor R. Griffiths,Margaret Llewellyn-Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015029943522

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British and Irish Women Dramatists Since 1958 by Trevor R. Griffiths,Margaret Llewellyn-Jones Pdf

Author : Alan P. Barr
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0820488887

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Modern Anglophone Drama by Women by Alan P. Barr Pdf

Alan P. Barr has brought together eleven world-class modern plays by women that show not only their artistry but also their variety and their passion. Drawn from nine different countries (other than the United States and England) that use English as their literary language, the plays reflect the concerns of women across the globe. The imagery and dramatic conventions may shift and the tones vary, but the need to be strong (and its difficulty), the sense of a world that is anything but nurturing or ideal, and the suspect nature of family life and relations are constant themes. The struggle over language, in countries that are very often ex-colonies, conveys the frequent overlap between feminist and postcolonial focuses. The diversity of Englishes on stages from Singapore to South Africa is a lovely curtain call to this theater festival.

Author : Elaine Aston,Janelle Reinelt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521595339

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The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights by Elaine Aston,Janelle Reinelt Pdf

This Companion, first published in 2000, addresses the work of women playwrights in Britain throughout the twentieth century.

Author : Aleks Sierz,Martin Middeke,Peter Paul Schnierer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408123348

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The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights by Aleks Sierz,Martin Middeke,Peter Paul Schnierer Pdf

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights who have risen to prominence since the 1980s. Written by an international team of scholars, it will be invaluable to anyone interested in, studying or teaching contemporary drama. Among the many playwrights whose work is examined are Sarah Daniels, Terry Johnson, Martin Crimp, Sarah Kane, Anthony Neilson, Mark Ravenhill, Simon Stephens, Debbie Tucker Green, Tanika Gupta and Richard Bean. Each essay features: A biographical sketch and introduction to the playwright A discussion of their most important plays An analysis of their stylistic and thematic traits, the critical reception and their place in the discourses of British theatre A bibliography of texts and critical material

Author : Nicola Abram
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030514594

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Black British Women's Theatre by Nicola Abram Pdf

This book marks a significant methodological shift in studies of black British women’s theatre: it looks beyond published plays to the wealth of material held in archives of various kinds, from national repositories and themed collections to individuals’ personal papers. It finds there a cache of unpublished manuscripts and production recordings distinctive for their non-naturalistic aesthetics. Close analysis of selected works identifies this as an intersectional feminist creative practice. Chapters focus on five theatre companies and artists, spanning several decades: Theatre of Black Women (1982-1988), co-founded by Booker Prize-winning writer Bernardine Evaristo; Munirah Theatre Company (1983-1991); Black Mime Theatre Women’s Troop (1990-1992); Zindika; and SuAndi. The book concludes by reflecting on the politics of representation, with reference to popular postmillennial playwright debbie tucker green. Drawing on new interviews with the playwrights/practitioners and their peers, this book assembles a rich, interconnected, and occasionally corrective history of black British women’s creativity. By reproducing 22 facsimile images of flyers, production programmes, photographs and other ephemera, Black British Women’s Theatre: Intersectionality, Archives, Aesthetics not only articulates a hidden history but allows its readers their own encounter with the fragile record of this vibrant past.

Author : Martin Middeke,Peter Paul Schnierer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408113462

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The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights by Martin Middeke,Peter Paul Schnierer Pdf

A thorough and insightful study of the work of twenty-five important Irish playwrights.

Author : Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer),Natasha Rappaport (Bibliographer),Don Rubin (General Editor),Rosabel Wang (Consulting Bibliographer)
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1344 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136119088

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World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre by Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer),Natasha Rappaport (Bibliographer),Don Rubin (General Editor),Rosabel Wang (Consulting Bibliographer) Pdf

An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.

Author : J. Komporaly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230598485

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Staging Motherhood by J. Komporaly Pdf

Focusing on post-1956 British women playwrights, this book questions to what extent transformations in women's lives have impacted on theatre. Contributing to a range of discourses, including gender studies, cultural studies and theatre and performance studies, this timely volume is crucial to our understanding of women's drama in this period.

Author : Samuele Grassi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443831185

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Looking Through Gender by Samuele Grassi Pdf

This contribution to Theatre Studies explores the shaping and performing of gender identity in British and Irish theatres since the 1980s. It highlights contact zones, conflict areas, and divergencies between the two theatre contexts with reference to historic, socio-political, and cultural clusters. Largely from a queer theory standpoint, this book reads several plays in their attempt to unmask exploiting mechanisms of sexuality and gender regulation. It focuses on alternative notions of sociality, shared spaces, and bodies, and offers political suggestions in order to resist confining notions of identity and gender.

Author : Eóin Flannery,Michael Griffin
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780815651499

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Ireland in Focus by Eóin Flannery,Michael Griffin Pdf

From an analysis of the Guinness brand’s reflection of Irish identity to an exploration of murals and film portrayals of political prisoners, this pioneering collection of essays seeks to present Ireland’s relationship to visual culture as a whole. While other works have explored the imagistic history of Ireland, most have restricted their lens to a single form of visual representation. Ireland in Focus is the first book to address the diverse range of visual representations of national and communal identity in Ireland. The contributors examine the politics of visual representation from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Drawing from the areas of cultural theory, postcolonial studies, art criticism, documentary and archival history, and gender studies, the essays provide novel insights on a variety of visual-cultural forms, including film, theater, photography, landscape art, political murals, and the visual iconography of commercial marketing. Bringing together established scholars and emerging young critics in the field, Ireland in Focus breaks new ground in showcasing the essential dynamism of visual culture and its relationship to Irish studies

Author : David Ian Rabey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317875390

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English Drama Since 1940 by David Ian Rabey Pdf

English Drama Since 1940 considers the bids of successive post-war dramatists to find language and images of remorseless disclosure, appropriate to the public manifestation of sensed crisis and the interrogation of the ideal of renewal. This book introduces the period and its discourse whilst redefining them, to give proper consideration to developments of themes, styles, concerns and contexts from the 80s to the present. The book offers succinct and analytical introductions to the work of 60 dramatists, whilst arguing for (re)appraisal of many dates critical perspectives, in order to stimulate further argument in the field.

Author : Dominic Shellard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780300147919

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British Theatre Since the War by Dominic Shellard Pdf

British theatre of the past fifty years has been brilliant, varied, and controversial, encompassing invigorating indigenous drama, politically didactic writing, the formation of such institutions as the National Theatre, the exporting of musicals worldwide from the West End, and much more. This entertaining and authoritative book is the first comprehensive account of British theatre in this period. Dominic Shellard moves chronologically through the half-century, discussing important plays, performers, directors, playwrights, critics, censors, and agents as well as the social, political, and financial developments that influenced the theatre world. Drawing on previously unseen material (such as the Kenneth Tynan archives), first-hand testimony, and detailed research, Shellard tackles several long-held assumptions about drama of the period. He questions the dominance of Look Back in Anger in the 1950s, arguing that much of the theatre of the ten years prior to its premiere in 1956 was vibrant and worthwhile. He suggests that theatre criticism, theatre producers, and such institutions as the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company have played key roles in the evolution of recent drama. And he takes a fresh look at the work of Terence Rattigan, Harold Pinter, Joe Orton, Alan Ayckbourn, Timberlake Wertenbaker, and other significant playwrights of the modern era. The book will be a valuable resource not only for students of theatre history but also for any theatre enthusiast.

Author : Mary Ketsin
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1590335902

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Irish Literature by Mary Ketsin Pdf

Irish literature's roots have been traced to the 7th-9th century. This is a rich and hardy literature starting with descriptions of the brave deeds of kings, saints and other heroes. These were followed by generous veins of religious, historical, genealogical, scientific and other works. The development of prose, poetry and drama raced along with the times. Modern, well-known Irish writers include: William Yeats, James Joyce, Sean Casey, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, John Synge and Samuel Beckett.

Author : Dan Rebellato
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408129586

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Modern British Playwriting: 2000-2009 by Dan Rebellato Pdf

Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to 2009 in six volumes. Each volume features a critical analysis and reevaluation of the work of four/five key playwrights from that decade authored by a team of experts, together with an extensive commentary on the period . Edited by Dan Rebellato, Modern British Playwriting: 2000-2009 provides an authoritative and stimulating reassessment of the theatre of the decade, together with a detailed study of the work of David Greig (Nadine Holdsworth), Simon Stephens (Jacqueline Bolton), Tim Crouch (Dan Rebellato), Roy Williams (Michael Pearce) and Debbie Tucker Green (Lynette Goddard). The volume sets the context by providing a chronological survey of the decade, one marked by the War on Terror, the excesses of economic globalization and the digital revolution. In surveying the theatrical activity and climate, Andrew Haydon explores the response to the political events, the rise of verbatim theatre, the increasing experimentation and the effect of both the Boyden Report and changes in the Arts Council's priorities. Five scholars provide detailed examinations of the playwrights' work during the decade, combining an analysis of their plays with a study of other material such as early play drafts and the critical receptions of the time. Interviews with each playwright further illuminate this stimulating final volume in the Decades of Modern British Playwriting series.