LEADER 04062nam 22006375 450 001 9910728950403321 005 20251008145221.0 010 $a9783031264788 010 $a3031264789 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-26478-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30585314 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30585314 035 $a(OCoLC)1381712120 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-26478-8 035 $a(CKB)26846061600041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926846061600041 100 $a20230605d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRepresenting the Rural on the English Stage $ePerformance and Rurality in the Twenty-First Century /$fby Gemma Edwards 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (210 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Edwards, Gemma Representing the Rural on the English Stage Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031264771 327 $aIntroduction -- Chapter One: Staging the English Rural -- Chapter Two: Rural and Nation in Mike Bartlett?s Albion -- Chapter Three: Simpler Times: Pre-Industrial Rural England in D.C. Moore?s Common and E.V. Crowe?s The Sewing Group -- Chapter Four: Muck, Cattle, and Pigs: Rural Labour in Nell Leyshon?s The Farm, Richard Bean?s Harvest, and Bea Roberts? And Then Come the Nightjars -- Chapter Five: White Open Spaces: Race and Rurality -- Conclusion. 330 $aThis 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. Dr Gemma Edwards is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. Her work focuses on place, politics, and performance, particularly in non-metropolitan contexts. She has published on rurality in contemporary theatre, and her next project explores race, class, and English nationhood from 1945 to the present. 606 $aTheater$xHistory 606 $aTheater 606 $aEcocriticism 606 $aHuman geography 606 $aCultural geography 606 $aContemporary Theatre and Performance 606 $aNational and Regional Theatre and Performance 606 $aEcocriticism 606 $aSocial and Cultural Geography 615 0$aTheater$xHistory. 615 0$aTheater. 615 0$aEcocriticism. 615 0$aHuman geography. 615 0$aCultural geography. 615 14$aContemporary Theatre and Performance. 615 24$aNational and Regional Theatre and Performance. 615 24$aEcocriticism. 615 24$aSocial and Cultural Geography. 676 $a822.9209321734 700 $aEdwards$b Gemma$01356499 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910728950403321 996 $aRepresenting the Rural on the English Stage$93384478 997 $aUNINA