LEADER 04294nam 2200781 450 001 9910830661903321 005 20230721044512.0 010 $a1-118-73907-8 010 $a1-4051-7749-7 010 $a1-281-06920-5 010 $a9786611069209 010 $a0-470-76612-3 010 $a1-78268-434-4 010 $a0-470-69098-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000308775 035 $a(EBL)320062 035 $a(OCoLC)437192655 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000128263 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11139627 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000128263 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10064227 035 $a(PQKB)11600719 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC320062 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4038219 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4038219 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11112229 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL106920 035 $a(OCoLC)958544438 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4434840 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4434840 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000308775 100 $a20220307d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA concise companion to contemporary British and Irish drama /$fNadine Holdsworth, Mary Luckhurst 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aMalden, MA :$cBlackwell Publishing,$d[2007] 210 4$dİ2007 215 $a1 online resource (312 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell concise companions to literature and culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4051-3053-9 311 $a1-118-49213-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aList of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Nadine Holdsworth and Mary Luckhurst; Part I National Politics and Identities; Chapter 1 Europe in Flux: Exploring Revolution and Migration in British Plays of the 1990s Geoff Willcocks; Chapter 2 'I'll See You Yesterday': Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and the Captivating Past Claire Gleitman; Chapter 3 Black British Drama and the Politics of Identity D. Keith Peacock; Chapter 4 Northern Irish Drama: Speaking the Peace Tom Maguire; Part II Sites, Cities and Landscapes 327 $aChapter 5 The Production of 'Site': Site-Specific Theatre Fiona WilkieChapter 6 Staging an Urban Nation: Place and Identity in Contemporary Welsh Theatre Heike Roms; Chapter 7 The Landscape of Contemporary Scottish Drama: Place, Politics and Identity Nadine Holdsworth; Part III The Body, Text and the Real; Chapter 8 The Body's Cruel Joke: The Comic Theatre of Sarah Kane Ken Urban; Chapter 9 Physical Theatre: Complicite and the Question of Authority Helen Freshwater; Chapter 10 Verbatim Theatre, Media Relations and Ethics Mary Luckhurst; Part IV Science, Ethics and New Technologies 327 $aChapter 11 Theatre and Science David HigginsChapter 12 From the State of the Nation to Globalization: Shifting Political Agendas in Contemporary British Playwriting Dan Rebellato; Chapter 13 Theatre for a Media-Saturated Age Sarah Gorman; Index 330 $aFocusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979. Written by leading international scholars in the field, this collection offers new ways of thinking about the social, political, and cultural contexts within which specific aspects of British and Irish theatre have emerged and explores the relationship between these contexts and the works produced. It investigates why particular issues and practices have emerged as significant in the theatre of this period. 410 0$aBlackwell concise companions to literature and culture 606 $aEnglish drama$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTheater$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 676 $a822.91409 686 $a24.10$2bcl 686 $a18.05$2bcl 700 $aHoldsworth$b Nadine$0953145 702 $aLuckhurst$b Mary 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910830661903321 996 $aA concise companion to contemporary British and Irish drama$92804511 997 $aUNINA