LEADER 03775nam 2200637 450 001 9910460800703321 005 20200917021826.0 010 $a3-11-041122-9 010 $a3-11-033391-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110333916 035 $a(CKB)3710000000519782 035 $a(EBL)4338431 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001596836 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16297890 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001596836 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14885894 035 $a(PQKB)10255225 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4338431 035 $a(DE-B1597)445621 035 $a(OCoLC)979626604 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110333916 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4338431 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11150245 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL888814 035 $a(OCoLC)935921519 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000519782 100 $a20160211h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRethinking character in contemporary british theatre $eaesthetics, politics, subjectivity /$fCristina Delgado-Garci?a 210 1$aBerlin, Germany ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cDe Gruyter,$d2015. 210 4$d©2015 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 225 1 $aCDE Studies,$x2194-9069 ;$vVolume 26 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-040390-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tContents -- $tPreface: Character Remains -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. The Life, Death and Second Coming of Character -- $t2. Figuring the Subject beyond Individuality -- $t3. Singular Subjectivities -- $t4. Collective Subjectivities -- $tConclusion -- $tAppendix: Brief Survey of Character-less Plays, 1900 - Present -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aThe category of theatrical character has been swiftly dismissed in the academic reception of no-longer-dramatic texts and performances. However, claims on the dissolution of character narrowly demarcate what a subject is and how it may appear. This volume unmoors theatre scholarship from the regulatory ideals of liberal humanism, stretching the notion of character to encompass and illuminate otherwise unaccounted-for subjects, aesthetic strategies and political gestures in recent theatre works. To this aim, contemporary philosophical theories of subjectivation, European theatre studies, and experimental, script-led work produced in Britain since the late 1990s are mobilised as discussants on the question of subjectivity. Four contemporary playtexts and their performances are examined in depth: Sarah Kane's Crave and 4.48 Psychosis, Ed Thomas's Stone City Blue and Tim Crouch's ENGLAND. Through these case studies, Delgado-García demonstrates alternative ways of engaging theoretically with character, and elucidating a range of subjective figures beyond identity and individuality. Alongside these analyses, the book traces a large body of work that has experimented with speech attribution since the early twentieth-century. This is a timely contribution to contemporary theatre scholarship, which demonstrates that character remains a malleable and politically-salient notion in which understandings of subjectivity are still being negotiated. 410 0$aCDE studies ;$vVolume 26. 606 $aTheater$zGreat Britain$y21st century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTheater 676 $a792.0942 686 $aHN 1274$2rvk 700 $aDelgado-Garci?a$b Cristina$01031702 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460800703321 996 $aRethinking character in contemporary british theatre$92449188 997 $aUNINA