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Dramas of the past on the twentieth-century stage : in history's wings / / Alex Feldman



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Autore: Feldman Alexander <1981-, > Visualizza persona
Titolo: Dramas of the past on the twentieth-century stage : in history's wings / / Alex Feldman Visualizza cluster
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
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-136-15500-7
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.: 9910827490203321
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Serie: Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.