A companion to modern British and Irish drama, 1880-2005 / / edited by Mary Luckhurst

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (604 p.)
• Disciplina: 822.909; 822/.9109
• Soggetto topico: English drama - 20th century - History and criticism; English drama - Irish authors - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: Ireland Intellectual life 20th century Handbooks, manuals, etc; England Intellectual life 20th century Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Altri autori: LuckhurstMary
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A COMPANION TO MODERNBRITISH AND I RISHDRAMA; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Contexts; 1 Domestic and Imperial Politics in Britain and Ireland: The Testimony of Irish Theatre; 2 Reinventing England; 3 Ibsen in the English Theatre in the Fin de Siècle; 4 New Woman Drama; Part II Mapping New Ground, 1900-1939; 5 Shaw among the Artists; 6 Granville Barker and the Court Dramatists; 7 Gregory, Yeats and Ireland's Abbey Theatre; 8 Suffrage Theatre: Community Activism and Political Commitment; 9 Unlocking Synge Today ; 10 Sean O'Casey's Powerful Fireworks11 Auden and Eliot: Theatres of the Thirties; Part III England, Class and Empire, 1939-1990; 12 Empire and Class in the Theatre of John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy; 13 When Was the Golden Age? Narratives of Loss and Decline: John Osborne, Arnold Wesker and Rodney Ackland; 14 A Commercial Success: Women Playwrights in the 1950s; 15 Home Thoughts from Abroad: Mustapha Matura; 16 The Remains of the British Empire: The Plays of Winsome Pinnock; Part IV Comedy; 17 Wilde's Comedies; 18 Always Acting: Noël Coward and the Performing Self; 19 Beckett's Divine Comedy ; 20 Form and Ethics in the Comedies of Brendan Behan21 Joe Orton: Anger, Artifice and Absurdity; 22 Alan Ayckbourn: Experiments in Comedy; 23 'They Both Add up to Me': The Logic of Tom Stoppard's Dialogic Comedy; 24 Stewart Parker's Comedy of Terrors; Part V War and Terror; 25 A Wounded Stage: Drama and World War I; 26 Staging 'the Holocaust' in England; 27 Troubling Perspectives: Northern Ireland, the 'Troubles' and Drama; 28 On War: Charles Wood's Military Conscience; 29 Torture in the Plays of Harold Pinter; 30 Sarah Kane: From Terror to Trauma; Part VI Theatre since 1968 ; 31 Theatre since 196832 Lesbian and Gay Theatre: All Queer on the West End Front; 33 Edward Bond: Maker of Myths; 34 John McGrath and Popular Political Theatre; 35 David Hare and Political Playwriting: Between the Third Way and the Permanent Way; 36 Left in Front: David Edgar's Political Theatre; 37 Liz Lochhead: Writer and Re-Writer: Stories, Ancient and Modern; 38 'Spirits that Have Become Mean and Broken': Tom Murphy and the 'Famine' of Modern Ireland; 39 Caryl Churchill: Feeling Global; 40 Howard Barker and the Theatre of Catastrophe; 41 Reading History in the Plays of Brian Friel ; 42 Marina Carr: Violence and Destruction: Language, Space and Landscape43 Scrubbing up Nice? Tony Harrison's Stagings of the Past; 44 The Question of Multiculturalism: The Plays of Roy Williams; 45 Ed Thomas: Jazz Pictures in the Gaps of Language; 46 Theatre and Technology; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity.An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama.Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism.Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to modern British and Irish drama, 1880-2005
• ISBN: 1-78268-618-5; 1-281-32236-9; 9786611322366; 1-4051-6552-9; 0-470-75148-7; 0-470-75147-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910145286803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; ; 43.