Post War British Drama Looking Back In Gender

Author : Michelene Wandor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134773114

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Post-war British Drama: Looking Back in Gender by Michelene Wandor Pdf

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 : Michelene Wandor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317606147

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Look Back in Gender (Routledge Revivals) by Michelene Wandor Pdf

In this challenging book, first published in 1987, Michelene Wandor looks at the best-known plays in the thirty years prior to publication, from Look Back in Anger onwards. Wandor investigates the representation of the family and different forms of sexuality in these plays and re-reviews them from a perspective that throws into sharp relief the function of gender as an important determinant of plot, setting and the portrayal of character. Juxtaposing the period before 1968, when statutory censorship was still in force, with the years following its abolition, Wandor scrutinises the key plays of, among others, Osborne, Pinter, Wesker, Arden, and Delaney. Each one is analysed in terms of its social context: the influence of World War II, the testing of gender roles, the development of the Welfare State and changes in family patterns, and the impact of feminist, Left-wing and gay politics. Throughout the period, two generations of playwrights and theatregoers transformed the theatre into a forum in which they could articulate and explore the interaction of their interpersonal relationships with the wider political sphere. These changes are explored in this title, which will allow readers to re-evaluate their view of post-war British drama.

Author : Michelene Wandor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317606154

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Look Back in Gender (Routledge Revivals) by Michelene Wandor Pdf

In this challenging book, first published in 1987, Michelene Wandor looks at the best-known plays in the thirty years prior to publication, from Look Back in Anger onwards. Wandor investigates the representation of the family and different forms of sexuality in these plays and re-reviews them from a perspective that throws into sharp relief the function of gender as an important determinant of plot, setting and the portrayal of character. Juxtaposing the period before 1968, when statutory censorship was still in force, with the years following its abolition, Wandor scrutinises the key plays of, among others, Osborne, Pinter, Wesker, Arden, and Delaney. Each one is analysed in terms of its social context: the influence of World War II, the testing of gender roles, the development of the Welfare State and changes in family patterns, and the impact of feminist, Left-wing and gay politics. Throughout the period, two generations of playwrights and theatregoers transformed the theatre into a forum in which they could articulate and explore the interaction of their interpersonal relationships with the wider political sphere. These changes are explored in this title, which will allow readers to re-evaluate their view of post-war British drama.

Author : Aleks Sierz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441175052

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John Osborne's Look Back in Anger by Aleks Sierz Pdf

Look Back in Anger is one of the few works of drama that are indisputably central to British culture in general, and its name is one of the most well-known in postwar cultural history. Its premiere in 1956 sparked off the first "new wave" of kitchen-sink drama and the cultural phenomenon of the angry young man. The play's anti-hero, Jimmy Porter, became the spokesman of a generation. Osborne's play is a key milestone in "new writing" for British theatre, and the Royal Court-which produced the play-has since become one of the most important new writing theatres in the UK.

Author : Samuele Grassi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Clare Hanson,Susan Watkins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137477361

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1945-1975 by Clare Hanson,Susan Watkins Pdf

This volume reshapes our understanding of British literary culture from 1945-1975 by exploring the richness and diversity of women’s writing of this period. Essays by leading scholars reveal the range and intensity of women writers’ engagement with post-war transformations including the founding of the Welfare State, the gradual liberalization of attitudes to gender and sexuality and the reconfiguration of Britain and the empire in the context of the Cold War. Attending closely to the politics of form, the sixteen essays range across ‘literary’, ‘middlebrow’ and ‘popular’ genres, including espionage thrillers and historical fiction, children’s literature and science fiction, as well as poetry, drama and journalism. They examine issues including realism and experimentalism, education, class and politics, the emergence of ‘second-wave’ feminism, responses to the Holocaust and mass migration and diaspora. The volume offers an exciting reassessment of women’s writing at a time of radical social change and rapid cultural expansion.

Author : Paul William Siemers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D00754049Y

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Theatre of Constraint by Paul William Siemers Pdf

Author : Peter Paul Schnierer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015032532742

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Rekonventionalisierung Im Englishen Drama, 1980-1990 by Peter Paul Schnierer Pdf

Author : Luc Maurice Gilleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000042752794

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Sense and System(s) by Luc Maurice Gilleman Pdf

Author : Conference The Other in Polish Theatre and Drama
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : National characteristics, Polish, in drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026446737

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The Other in Polish Theatre and Drama by Conference The Other in Polish Theatre and Drama Pdf

Author : Sanford Sternlicht
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015063243771

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Masterpieces of Modern British and Irish Drama by Sanford Sternlicht Pdf

Modern British and Irish dramatic works are widely enjoyed by general readers and high school students. But because they are rooted in literary Modernism and generally reflect particular historical and cultural concerns, they can also be difficult for students to understand. This volume concisely and conveniently introduces 10 masterpieces of British and Irish drama in an accessible manner. The book begins with an introductory essay on the historical context of early Modernism, the nature of theater at the beginning of the 20th century, and the trends that have shaped modern Irish and British drama. Each of the chapters that follow is devoted to a particular play. These include: BL The Playboy of the Western World BL Saint Joan BL Juno and the Paycock BL Private Lives BL Waiting for Godot BL Look Back in Anger BL The Birthday Party BL Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead BL Translations BL And Top Girls. Each chapter provides a brief biography, a plot summary, a discussion of major themes and characters, an overview of the play's historical background, an analysis of the play's dramatic style, a survey of the play's critical reception, and suggestions for further reading.

Author : Anthony Aldgate
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015034863616

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Censorship and the Permissive Society by Anthony Aldgate Pdf

Stage or film presentations of Look Back in Anger, A Taste of Honey, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alfie, and Darling were much changed, even transformed, by censorship between 1955-1965. Censorship and the Permissive Society explores the predicament writers and directors faced, and highlights the debate over the liberalizing or progressive aspects of the sea changes affecting British society at the time. A key decade in the postwar social and cultural history of Britain, the period saw the country emerge from the 'doldrums era' of the fifties, to the permissive society of the 'swinging sixties'. A noticeable move towards 'decensorship' increasingly loosened the traditional constraints imposed on literature, stage, and films. Anthony Aldgate shows, however, that censorship altered the progression of the artistic and creative renaissance of this period, and how the process brought changes in the works of writers such as John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney, Alan Sillitoe, John Braine, Frederic Raphael, and Keith Waterhouse, and directors such as Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson, John Schlesinger, and Lewis Gilbert. Drawing upon a mass of recently released or hitherto unseen documentation - including records, files, and photographs from the British Board of Film Censors and the Lord Chamberlain's Office - Anthony Aldgate charts the impact of the censorship process between 1955 and 1965 upon playwrights and directors, many of whom endured the rigorous, sometimes rancorous, though often also fruitful, scrutiny of the film and theatre censors.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122750834

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Contemporary Drama in English by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Slavic countries
ISBN : UCLA:L0091371948

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Indiana Slavic Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bernhard Reitz,Hubert Zapf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : English drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043279889

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British Drama in the 1980s by Bernhard Reitz,Hubert Zapf Pdf