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Autore: | Feldman Alexander <1981-, > |
Titolo: | Dramas of the past on the twentieth-century stage : in history's wings / / Alex Feldman |
Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (271 p.) |
Disciplina: | 822/.0514090914 |
Soggetto topico: | Historical drama, English - History and criticism |
Historical drama, German - History and criticism | |
English drama - 20th century - History and criticism | |
German drama - 20th century - History and criticism | |
Literature and history - Great Britain - History - 20th century | |
Literature and history - Germany - History - 20th century | |
Play within a play | |
History in literature | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction. Historiographic metatheatre: the basics -- "We want our revolution now": Peter Weiss, Gunter Grass and the theatre of insurrection -- All Wilde on the Western front: Alan Bennett, Tom Stoppard and the theatre of war -- God rot great men?: Rolf Hochhuth, Howard Brenton and the anti-heroic drama -- "Better mimics than our London actors": Timberlake Wertenbaker and the colonial theatre -- Conclusion -- Epilogue. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements with the traditions and forms of dramatic art illuminate historical themes and aid in the representation of historical events and, in doing so, formulates a genre. Historiographic metatheatre has been, and remains, a seminal mode of political engagement and ideological critique in the contemporary dramatic canon. Locating its key texts within the traditions of historical drama, self-reflexivity in European theatre, debates in the politics and ae |
Titolo autorizzato: | Dramas of the past on the twentieth-century stage |
ISBN: | 1-283-97326-X |
0-203-07847-0 | |
1-136-15501-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910463155003321 |
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