Elizabethan And Jacobean Reappropriation In Contemporary British Drama

Author : Graham Saunders
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137444530

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Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama by Graham Saunders Pdf

This book examines British playwrights' responses to the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries since 1945, from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead to Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem. Using the work of Julie Sanders and others working in the fields of Adaptation Studies and intertextual criticism, it argues that this relatively neglected area of drama, widely considered to be adaptation, should instead be considered as appropriation - as work that often mounts challenges to the ideologies and orthodoxies within Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and questions the legitimacy and cultural authority of Shakespeare’s legacy. The book discusses the work of Howard Barker, Peter Barnes, Edward Bond, Howard Brenton, David Edgar, Elaine Feinstein and the Women’s Theatre Group, David Greig, Sarah Kane, Dennis Kelly, Bernard Kopps, Charles Marowitz, Julia Pascal and Arnold Wesker.

Author : William C. Boles
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030394271

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After In-Yer-Face Theatre by William C. Boles Pdf

This book revisits In-Yer-Face theatre, an explosive, energetic theatrical movement from the 1990s that introduced the world to playwrights Sarah Kane, Martin McDonagh, Mark Ravenhill, Jez Butterworth, and many others. Split into three sections the book re-examines the era, considers the movement’s influence on international theatre, and considers its lasting effects on contemporary British theatre. The first section offers new readings on works from that time period (Antony Neilson and Mark Ravenhill) as well as challenges myths created by the Royal Court Theatre about the its involvement with In-Yer-Face theatre. The second section discusses the influence of In-Yer-Face on Portuguese, Russian and Australian theater, while the final section discusses the legacy of In-Yer-Face writers as well as their influences on more recent playwrights, including chapters on Philip Ridley, Sarah Kane, Joe Penhall, Martin Crimp, Dennis Kelly, and Verbatim Drama.

Author : Marianne Drugeon
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527574991

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Medieval and Early Modern England on the Contemporary Stage by Marianne Drugeon Pdf

This volume explores the multiple connections between contemporary British theatre and the medieval and early modern periods. Involving both French and British scholars, as well as playwrights, adapters and stage directors, its scope is political, as it assesses the power of adaptations and history plays to offer a new perspective not only on the past and present, but also on the future. Along the way, burning contemporary social and political issues are explored, such as the place and role of women and ethnic minorities in today’s post-Brexit Britain. The volume builds into a dialogue between the ghosts of the past and their contemporary spectators. Starting with a focus on contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays, then concentrating on contemporary history plays set in the distant past, and ending with the contributions of famous playwrights sharing their experience, the book will be of interest to practitioners, as well as students and researchers in drama and performance studies.

Author : Gemma Edwards
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031264788

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Representing the Rural on the English Stage by Gemma Edwards Pdf

This book explores how the English rural has been represented in contemporary theatre and performance. Exploring a range of plays, forms, and contexts of theatre production, Representing the Rural celebrates the lively engagement with rurality on English stages since 2000, constituting the first full study of theatrical representations of rural life. Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book draws on political philosophy and cultural geography in its definitions of rurality and Englishness, and works with key theoretical concepts such as nostalgia and ethnonationalism. Covering a range of perspectives from the country garden in Mike Bartlett’s Albion to agricultural labour in Nell Leyshon’s The Farm, the enclosure acts in D.C. Moore’s Common to Black rural history in Testament’s Black Men Walking, the book shows how theatre and performance can open up different ways of reading rural geographies, histories, and lives. While Representing the Rural is aimed at students and researchers of theatre and performance, its interdisciplinary scope means that it has wider appeal to other disciplines in the arts and humanities, including geography, politics, and history.

Author : Graham Saunders
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000890945

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Harold Pinter by Graham Saunders Pdf

Harold Pinter provides an up-to-date analysis and reappraisal concerning the work of one of the most studied and performed dramatists in the world. Drawing extensively from The Harold Pinter Archive at the British Library as well as reviews and other critical materials, this book offers new insights into previously established views about his work. The book also analyses and reappraises specific key historical and contemporary productions, including a selection of Pinter’s most significant screenplays. In particular, this volume seeks to assess Pinter’s critical reputation and legacy since his death in 2008. These include his position as a political writer and political activist – from disassociation and neutrality on the subject until relatively late in his career when his drama sought to explicitly address questions of political dissent and torture by totalitarian regimes. The book revisits some familiar territories such as Pinter’s place as a British absurdist and the role memory plays in his work, but it also sets out to explore new territories such as Pinter’s changing attitudes towards gender in the light of #MeToo and queer politics and how in particular a play such as The Caretaker (1960) through several key productions has brought the issues of race into sharper focus. Part of the Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatist series, Harold Pinter provides an essential and accessible guide to the dramatists’ work.

Author : Pamela Bickley,Jenny Stevens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350068650

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Studying Shakespeare Adaptation by Pamela Bickley,Jenny Stevens Pdf

Shakespeare's plays have long been open to reimagining and reinterpretation, from John Fletcher's riposte to The Taming of the Shrew in 1611 to present day spin-offs in a whole range of media, including YouTube videos and Manga comics. This book offers a clear route map through the world of adaptation, selecting examples from film, drama, prose fiction, ballet, the visual arts and poetry, and exploring their respective political and cultural interactions with Shakespeare's plays. 36 specific case studies are discussed, three for each of the 12 plays covered, offering additional guidance for readers new to this important area of Shakespeare studies. The introduction signals key adaptation issues that are subsequently explored through the chapters on individual plays, including Shakespeare's own adaptive art and its Renaissance context, production and performance as adaptation, and generic expectation and transmedial practice. Organized chronologically, the chapters cover the most commonly studied plays, allowing readers to dip in to read about specific plays or trace how technological developments have fundamentally changed ways in which Shakespeare is experienced. With examples encompassing British, North American, South and East Asian, European and Middle Eastern adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, the volume offers readers a wealth of insights drawn from different ages, territories and media.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1420 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : PSU:000048572415

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MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:313402195

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Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wilfred Thomas Jewkes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Drama
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030008809099

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Act Division in Elizabethan and Jacobean Plays, 1583-1616 by Wilfred Thomas Jewkes Pdf

Author : Jennifer Robin Goodman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : English drama
ISBN : UCAL:B4280350

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British Drama Before 1660 by Jennifer Robin Goodman Pdf

This study covers the development of British drama from the time of the Roman colonization to the restoration of Charles II in 1660. The author provides an overview of scholarship on the subject since 1950, and goes on to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the two main approaches to drama study: stage history and the literary study of drama.

Author : Peter Ure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0853231427

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ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN DRAMA by Peter Ure Pdf

Author : Graham Holderness
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Ideology
ISBN : 0719014883

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The Shakespeare Myth by Graham Holderness Pdf

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345809285

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Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood Pdf

Our greatest literary innovator and beloved novelist has reimagined Shakespeare's final, great play of magic and illusion. Entertaining, gripping, emotionally rich and wise, Hag-Seed is an homage to a master, positioned for the fall celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death. "It's got a thunderstorm in it. And revenge. Definitely revenge." Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And brewing revenge. After twelve years, revenge finally arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here, Felix and his motley crew of inmate actors will put on his Tempest, and snare the traitors who destroyed him. But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall? Margaret Atwood's novel take on Shakespeare's play of enchantment, revenge and second chances leads us on an illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises and wonders of its own.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017444402

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Australasian Drama Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rita Banerjee
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004448261

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India in Early Modern English Travel Writings by Rita Banerjee Pdf

Comparing the variant ideologies of the representations of India in seventeenth-century European travelogues, India in Early Modern English Travel Narratives concerns a relatively neglected area of study and often overlooked writers. Relating the narratives to contemporary ideas and beliefs, Rita Banerjee argues that travel writers, many of them avid Protestants, seek to negativize India by constructing her in opposition to Europe, the supposed norm, by deliberately erasing affinities and indulging in the politics of disavowal. However, some travelogues show a neutral stance by dispassionate ethnographic reporting, indicating a growing empirical trend. Yet others, influenced by the Enlightenment ideas of diversity, demonstrate tolerance of alien practices and, occasionally, acceptance of the superior rationality of the other's customs.