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Author : Bernhard Reitz,Hubert Zapf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : English drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043279889
Author : Per Serritslev Petersen,Karl-Heinz Westarp
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015053396910
Author : Michael Pearce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317422174
Black British Drama: A Transnational Story looks afresh at the ways black theatre in Britain is connected to and informed by the spaces of Africa, the Caribbean and the USA. Michael Pearce offers an exciting new approach to reading modern and contemporary black British drama, examining plays by a range of writers including Michael Abbensetts, Mustapha Matura, Caryl Phillips, Winsome Pinnock, Kwame Kwei-Armah, debbie tucker green, Roy Williams and Bola Agbaje. Chapters combine historical documentation and discussion with close analysis to provide an in-depth, absorbing account of post-war black British drama situated within global and transnational circuits. A significant contribution to black British and black diaspora theatre studies, Black British Drama is a must-read for scholars and students in this evolving field.
Author : Catherine Rees
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137610294
This guide offers a comprehensive account of British theatre from the 1960s to the present day. Placing critical commentary at the heart of its analysis, it explores how theatre critics and scholars have sought to understand and write about modern theatre, from the earliest reviews to revivals appearing decades later. With studies of contemporary reviews and archival material, Contemporary British Drama offers readers the opportunity to learn about British theatre in its original context and to chart shifting critical perceptions over the decades. It provides a crucial juxtaposition between the development of British theatre and its contemporaneous critical response, supplying an invaluable insight into the critical climate of recent decades. From feminist playwrighting to In-Yer-Face theatre, this is the ideal companion for undergraduate students of literature and theatre in need of an introduction to the debates surrounding contemporary British drama.
Author : George W. Brandt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1993-09-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521427231
On British television drama in the 1980's
Author : Mary Brewer,Lynette Goddard,Deirdre Osborne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137506290
This indispensable overview of modern black British drama spans seven decades of distinctive playwriting from the 1950s to the present. Interweaving social and cultural context with close critical analysis of key dramatists' plays, leading scholars explore how these dramatists have created an enduring, transformative and diverse cultural presence.
Author : Aleks Sierz,Martin Middeke,Peter Paul Schnierer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408123348
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 : Michelene Wandor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134773114
In this extensively revised and updated edition of her classic work, Look Back in Gender, Michelene Wandor confirms the symbiotic relationship between drama and gender in a provocative look at key, representative British plays from the last fifty years. Repositioning the text at the heart of hteatre studies, Wandor surveys plays by Ayckbourn, Beckett, Churchill, Daniels, Friel, Hare, Kane, Osborne, Pinter, Ravenhill, Wertenbaker, Wesker and others. Her nuanced argument, central to any analysis of contemporary drama, discusses: *the imperative of gender in the playwright's imagination *the function of gender as a major determinant of the text's structural and narrative drives *the impact of socialism and feminism on post-war British drama, and the relevance of feminist dynamics in drama *differences in the representation of the fmaily, sexuality and the mother, before and after 1968 *the impact of the slogan that the 'personal is political' on contemporary form and content.
Author : Elizabeth Hale Winkler
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874133580
This comprehensive study formulates an original theory that dramatic song must be perceived as a separate genre situated between poetry, music, and theater. It focuses on John Arden, Margaretta D'Arcy, Edward Bond, Peter Barnes, John Osborne, Peter Nichols, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer, and John McGrath.
Author : Hersh Zeifman,Cynthia Zimmerman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349108190
This book focuses exclusively on the exciting and provocative plays produced in England in the last two decades. The primary aim of the collection is to celebrate the truly remarkable range of British drama since 1970, by examining the work of fourteen important and representative playwrights. This emphasis on range applies not only to the dramatists chosen for inclusion but to the critics as well - specifically to the diversity of critical methodology demonstrated in their essays.
Author : Sajalkumar Bhattacharya,Himadri Lahiri,Arnab Kumar Sinha
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527537613
This anthology of essays maps the divergent issues that have become relevant in contemporary Indian English poetry and drama. By providing a clear idea about the new themes, techniques and methods used by the Indian English poets and playwrights to address the issues emerging in the changing socio-cultural scenario, particularly during the post-globalization period, the essays offer insightful observations on canon formation and its reception. It is high time to consider afresh whether the canons of Indian English poetry and drama have widened their scope to include innovative forms of writing or whether they have evolved significantly to generate novel perspectives. These questions, which are linked with the issue of canon formation and its reception are intricately woven into the fabric of these essays. This anthology will respond to the scholarly interests of inquisitive students, research scholars and academics in the field of Indian English literature.
Author : Ulrich Broich,Susan Bassnett
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : British literature
ISBN : 9042015365
At the turn of the twenty-first century Britain is in a state of change. It is being transformed by the ongoing process of devolution as well as by its increasing multi-ethnicity. At the same time the relationship with the European Union remains controversial. This book charts these transformations in the context of the changes Britain experienced a century ago, at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on British politics, culture and literature the articles examine a range of topics, including models of utopian and apocalyptic thought, the contemporary celebrity cult, the state of literary theory in Britain and the recent "boom" in lyrical poetry and the "drama of blood sperm". The book is of interest to university lecturers, teachers, students of English and the general reader interested in the present condition of the United Kingdom. Book jacket.
Author : K. Dorney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230245211
An account of language and drama between 1945 and 2005, synthesizing linguistic and dramatic knowledge in order to illuminate the ways in which anxieties and attitudes toward language manifest themselves in discourses on and around English theatre of the time, and how these anxieties and attitudes reflect back through the theatre of this period.
Author : David Ian Rabey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317875383
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 : Scott Fraser
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004484979
This analysis of twenty published texts by David Hare employs definitions from contemporary semiotic literary theory as a means of describing typologies of political drama. By tracing the incorporation of stylistic devices from agitational propaganda (caricature, self-referentiality, the frisson between oral and visual signification) throughout the typologies, the study illustrates how each text subverts audience expectation based on established dramatic genres. The collection of texts is seen as inherently self-referential and politically subversive. At the centre of each typology is a protagonist who functions as a martyr to or parodic emblem of contemporary society. Consistently, the hermeticism of public institutions which represent the political status quo makes them immune from any form of individual protest from the Left or Right. In the satirical anatomy, the emblem of political dissent is coopted by involvement within the institution, or the stage is dominated by a conservative who controls the action. In the demythology, private individuals are seen as incapable of altering the public frame of history; but here private suffering subverts the collective mythology of the historical construct. In the martyrology, the emblem of dissent is associated with a moral virtue which is inimical to contemporary society, the audience's expectation of the triumph of the individual being subverted when he/she is expelled from the onstage world on the grounds of political ideology. It is only in the final typology, the conversion, that a conservative emblem is seen as directly influenced by such martyrdom, and the audience is provided with an actual example of political change. Thus, the study describes how each typology builds on the construction of the previous, and all generate from agitational propaganda.
