Class Culture And Tragedy In The Plays Of Jez Butterworth

Author : Sean McEvoy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030627119

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Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth by Sean McEvoy Pdf

Jez Butterworth is undoubtedly one of the most popular and commercially successful playwrights to have emerged in Britain in the early twenty-first century. This book, only the second so far to have been written on him, argues that the power of his most acclaimed work comes from a reinvigoration of traditional forms of tragedy expressed in a theatricalized working-class language. Butterworth’s most developed tragedies invoke myth and legend as a figurative resistance to the flat and crushing instrumentalism of contemporary British political and economic culture. In doing so they summon older, resonant narratives which are both popular and high-cultural in order to address present cultural crises in a language and in a form which possess wide appeal. Tracing the development of Butterworth’s work chronologically from Mojo (1995) to The Ferryman (2017), each chapter offers detailed critical readings of a single play, exploring how myth and legend become significant in a variety of ways to Butterworth’s presentation of cultural and personal crisis.

Author : Pamela Bickley,Jenny Stevens
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000856385

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Shakespeare, Education and Pedagogy by Pamela Bickley,Jenny Stevens Pdf

This volume captures the diverse ways in which Shakespeare interacts with educational theory and practice. It explores the depiction of learning and education in the plays, the role of Shakespeare as pedagogue, and ways in which the teaching of Shakespeare can facilitate discussion of some of the urgent questions of modern times. The book offers a wide range of perspectives – historical, theoretical, theatrical. The Renaissance humanist learning underpinning Shakespeare’s own work is explored in essays that consider how the complexity of Shakespeare’s drama challenges early-modern pedagogical orthodoxies. From close analysis of individual, solitary reflection on Shakespeare’s writing, the book moves outward to engage with contemporary social issues around inclusivity, society, and the planet, demonstrating the many educational contexts in which Shakespeare is currently appropriated. Engaging with current questions of the value of literary study, the book testifies to the potentialities of an empowering Shakespearean pedagogy. Bringing together voices from a variety of institutions and from a wide range of educational perspectives, this volume will be essential reading for academics, researchers and post-graduate students of Shakespeare, literature in education, pedagogy and literary theory.

Author : Nadine Holdsworth
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137597779

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English Theatre and Social Abjection by Nadine Holdsworth Pdf

Focusing on contemporary English theatre, this book asks a series of questions: How has theatre contributed to understandings of the North-South divide? What have theatrical treatments of riots offered to wider debates about their causes and consequences? Has theatre been able to intervene in the social unease around Gypsy and Traveller communities? How has theatre challenged white privilege and the persistent denigration of black citizens? In approaching these questions, this book argues that the nation is blighted by a number of internal rifts that pit people against each other in ways that cast particular groups as threats to the nation, as unruly or demeaned citizens – as ‘social abjects’. It interrogates how those divisions are generated and circulated in public discourse and how theatre offers up counter-hegemonic and resistant practices that question and challenge negative stigmatization, but also how theatre can contribute to the recirculation of problematic cultural imaginaries.

Author : Tony Kushner
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781458781383

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Homebody/Kabul by Tony Kushner Pdf

Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul is the most remarkable play in a decade...without a doubt the most important of our time.''--John Heilpern, New York Observer In Homebody/Kabul, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America, has turned his penetrating gaze to the arena of global politics to create this suspenseful portrait of a dangerous collision between cultures. Written before 9/11, this play premiered in New York in December 2001 and has had subsequent highly successful productions in London, Providence, Seattle, Chicago and Los Angeles. This version incorporates all the playwright's changes and is now the definitive version of the text.

Author : Neil Anthony Docking
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573115222

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The Revlon Girl by Neil Anthony Docking Pdf

Set eight months following Aberfan Disaster of 1966 (in which 144 people were killed; 116 of them children) The Revlon Girl tells the real life story of a group of bereaved mothers who met every week above a local hotel to talk, cry and even laugh without feeling guilty. At one of their meetings, the women looked at each other and admitted how much they felt they'd let themselves go. So afraid that people would think them frivolous, they secretly arranged for a representative from Revlon to come and give them a talk on beauty tips.

Author : Jez Butterworth
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Rock musicians
ISBN : 0822216612

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Mojo by Jez Butterworth Pdf

THE STORY: Silver Johnny is the new singing sensation, straight out of a low-life Soho clubland bar in 1958. His success could be the big break for two dead-end workers in the bar, if they play their cards right and trust the owner of the place to

Author : Duncan Macmillan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781783193387

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Duncan Macmillan: Plays One by Duncan Macmillan Pdf

This is the first collection from critically acclaimed playwright Duncan Macmillan, containing the plays Monster, Lungs, 2071, Every Brilliant Thing and People, Places and Things.

Author : Jez Butterworth
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1854599267

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The Winterling by Jez Butterworth Pdf

"One of the most dazzling Royal Court debut in years" -Time Out London

Author : Siân Adiseshiah,Louise LePage
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137484031

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Twenty-First Century Drama by Siân Adiseshiah,Louise LePage Pdf

Within this landmark collection, original voices from the field of drama provide rich analysis of a selection of the most exciting and remarkable plays and productions of the twenty-first century. But what makes the drama of the new millenium so distinctive? Which events, themes, shifts, and paradigms are marking its stages? Kaleidoscopic in scope, Twenty-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 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 fundamentally globalized. The volume’s central themes – the financial crisis, austerity, climate change, new forms of human being, migration, class, race and gender, cultural politics and issues of nationhood – are mediated through fresh, cutting-edge perspectives.

Author : Linda Woodbridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139493550

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English Revenge Drama by Linda Woodbridge Pdf

Vengeance permeates English Renaissance drama - for example, it crops up in all but two of Shakespeare's plays. This book explores why a supposedly forgiving Christian culture should have relished such bloodthirsty, vengeful plays. A clue lies in the plays' passion for fairness, a preoccupation suggesting widespread resentment of systemic unfairness - legal, economic, political and social. Revengers' precise equivalents - the father of two beheaded sons obliges his enemy to eat her two sons' heads - are vigilante versions of Elizabethan law, where penalties suit the crimes: thieves' hands were cut off, scolds' tongues bridled. The revengers' language of 'paying' hints at the operation of revenge in the service of economic redress. Revenge makes contact with resistance theory, justifying overthrow of tyrants, and some revengers challenge the fundamental inequity of social class. Woodbridge demonstrates how, for all their sensationalism, their macabre comedy and outlandish gore, Renaissance revenge plays do some serious cultural work.

Author : Joe Penhall
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408140918

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Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall Pdf

An expertly annotated edition of Joe Penhall's compelling drama: a dark, exhilarating tale of race, madness and power in the midst of a struggling National Health Service.

Author : Mark Taylor-Batty
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408175316

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The Theatre of Harold Pinter by Mark Taylor-Batty Pdf

The Theatre of Harold Pinter offers a unique assesment of one of Britain's most influential dramatists, combining a chronological survey of Pinter's entire work for the stage with a series of incisive critical essays from leading scholars.

Author : Paul Readman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424738

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Storied Ground by Paul Readman Pdf

The relationship between landscape and identity is explored to reveal how Englishness encompasses the urban and rural, and the north and south.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Theater
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112954123

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Theatre Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Margaret Forster
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141957746

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Hidden Lives by Margaret Forster Pdf

Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so close to an illegitimate daughter without acknowledging her? The search for answers took Margaret on a journey into her family’s past, examining not only her grandmother's life, but also her mother’s and her own. The result is both a moving, evocative memoir and a fascinating commentary on how women’s lives have changed over the past century.