Rethinking character in contemporary british theatre : aesthetics, politics, subjectivity / / Cristina Delgado-García

• Autore: Delgado-García Cristina
• Pubblicazione: Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 792.0942
• Soggetto topico: Theater - Great Britain - 21st century
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain
• Soggetto non controllato: Character; Politics of Aesthetics; Postdramatic Theatre; Subjectivity
• Classificazione: HN 1274
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Preface: Character Remains -- Introduction -- 1. The Life, Death and Second Coming of Character -- 2. Figuring the Subject beyond Individuality -- 3. Singular Subjectivities -- 4. Collective Subjectivities -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Brief Survey of Character-less Plays, 1900 - Present -- Works Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The category of theatrical character has been swiftly dismissed in the academic reception of no-longer-dramatic texts and performances. However, claims on the dissolution of character narrowly demarcate what a subject is and how it may appear. This volume unmoors theatre scholarship from the regulatory ideals of liberal humanism, stretching the notion of character to encompass and illuminate otherwise unaccounted-for subjects, aesthetic strategies and political gestures in recent theatre works. To this aim, contemporary philosophical theories of subjectivation, European theatre studies, and experimental, script-led work produced in Britain since the late 1990s are mobilised as discussants on the question of subjectivity. Four contemporary playtexts and their performances are examined in depth: Sarah Kane's Crave and 4.48 Psychosis, Ed Thomas's Stone City Blue and Tim Crouch's ENGLAND. Through these case studies, Delgado-García demonstrates alternative ways of engaging theoretically with character, and elucidating a range of subjective figures beyond identity and individuality. Alongside these analyses, the book traces a large body of work that has experimented with speech attribution since the early twentieth-century. This is a timely contribution to contemporary theatre scholarship, which demonstrates that character remains a malleable and politically-salient notion in which understandings of subjectivity are still being negotiated.
• Titolo autorizzato: Rethinking character in contemporary british theatre
• ISBN: 3-11-041122-9; 3-11-033391-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797811703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: CDE studies ; ; Volume 26.