LEADER 03070nam 22006015 450 001 9910483081003321 005 20230810172059.0 010 $a9783030627119 010 $a303062711X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-62711-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000011692832 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-62711-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6449738 035 $a(Perlego)3482067 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011692832 100 $a20201229d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aClass, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth /$fby Sean McEvoy 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (VII, 217 p.) 311 08$a9783030627102 311 08$a3030627101 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Yakkety Yak: Mojo (1995) -- 3. Exclusion from the Garden: The Night Heron (2002) -- 4. Homage: The Winterling (2006) -- 5. Drought: Parlour Song (2008) -- 6. The Enchanted Wood: Jerusalem (2009) -- 7. Time, Myth and Power: The River (2012) -- 8. Allusion: The Ferryman (2017). 330 $aJez 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. 606 $aTheater$xHistory 606 $aPlaywriting 606 $aDramatists 606 $aDrama 606 $aContemporary Theatre and Performance 606 $aPlaywrights and Playwriting 606 $aDrama 615 0$aTheater$xHistory. 615 0$aPlaywriting. 615 0$aDramatists. 615 0$aDrama. 615 14$aContemporary Theatre and Performance. 615 24$aPlaywrights and Playwriting. 615 24$aDrama. 676 $a822.914 676 $a822.92 700 $aMcEvoy$b Sean$f1959-$0855441 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483081003321 996 $aClass, culture and tragedy in the plays of Jez Butterworth$92854971 997 $aUNINA