A concise companion to contemporary British and Irish drama / / Nadine Holdsworth, Mary Luckhurst
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Holdsworth Nadine
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| Titolo: |
A concise companion to contemporary British and Irish drama / / Nadine Holdsworth, Mary Luckhurst
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| Pubblicazione: | Malden, MA : , : Blackwell Publishing, , [2007] |
| ©2007 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 822.91409 |
| Soggetto topico: | English drama - 20th century - History and criticism |
| Theater - Great Britain - History - 20th century | |
| Classificazione: | 24.10 |
| 18.05 | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | LuckhurstMary |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | List 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 |
| Chapter 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 | |
| Chapter 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Focusing 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A concise companion to contemporary British and Irish drama |
| ISBN: | 1-118-73907-8 |
| 1-4051-7749-7 | |
| 1-281-06920-5 | |
| 9786611069209 | |
| 0-470-76612-3 | |
| 1-78268-434-4 | |
| 0-470-69098-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910830661903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture