03912nam 2200685 450 991079781170332120230807205308.03-11-041122-93-11-033391-010.1515/9783110333916(CKB)3710000000519782(EBL)4338431(SSID)ssj0001596836(PQKBManifestationID)16297890(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001596836(PQKBWorkID)14885894(PQKB)10255225(MiAaPQ)EBC4338431(DE-B1597)445621(OCoLC)979626604(DE-B1597)9783110333916(Au-PeEL)EBL4338431(CaPaEBR)ebr11150245(CaONFJC)MIL888814(OCoLC)935921519(EXLCZ)99371000000051978220160211h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRethinking character in contemporary british theatre aesthetics, politics, subjectivity /Cristina Delgado-GarcíaBerlin, Germany ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :De Gruyter,2015.©20151 online resource (240 p.)CDE Studies,2194-9069 ;Volume 26Description based upon print version of record.3-11-040390-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Preface: Character Remains -- Introduction -- 1. The Life, Death and Second Coming of Character -- 2. Figuring the Subject beyond Individuality -- 3. Singular Subjectivities -- 4. Collective Subjectivities -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Brief Survey of Character-less Plays, 1900 - Present -- Works Cited -- IndexThe category of theatrical character has been swiftly dismissed in the academic reception of no-longer-dramatic texts and performances. However, claims on the dissolution of character narrowly demarcate what a subject is and how it may appear. This volume unmoors theatre scholarship from the regulatory ideals of liberal humanism, stretching the notion of character to encompass and illuminate otherwise unaccounted-for subjects, aesthetic strategies and political gestures in recent theatre works. To this aim, contemporary philosophical theories of subjectivation, European theatre studies, and experimental, script-led work produced in Britain since the late 1990s are mobilised as discussants on the question of subjectivity. Four contemporary playtexts and their performances are examined in depth: Sarah Kane's Crave and 4.48 Psychosis, Ed Thomas's Stone City Blue and Tim Crouch's ENGLAND. Through these case studies, Delgado-García demonstrates alternative ways of engaging theoretically with character, and elucidating a range of subjective figures beyond identity and individuality. Alongside these analyses, the book traces a large body of work that has experimented with speech attribution since the early twentieth-century. This is a timely contribution to contemporary theatre scholarship, which demonstrates that character remains a malleable and politically-salient notion in which understandings of subjectivity are still being negotiated. CDE studies ;Volume 26.TheaterGreat Britain21st centuryGreat BritainfastCharacter.Politics of Aesthetics.Postdramatic Theatre.Subjectivity.Theater792.0942HN 1274rvkDelgado-García Cristina1535010MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797811703321Rethinking character in contemporary british theatre3782983UNINA