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Autore: | McEvoy Sean <1959-> |
Titolo: | Class, culture and tragedy in the plays of Jez Butterworth / / Sean McEvoy |
Pubblicazione: | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021] |
©2021 | |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2021. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (VII, 217 p.) |
Disciplina: | 822.914 |
Nota di contenuto: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Yakkety Yak: Mojo (1995) -- 3. Exclusion from the Garden: The Night Heron (2002) -- 4. Homage: The Winterling (2006) -- 5. Drought: Parlour Song (2008) -- 6. The Enchanted Wood: Jerusalem (2009) -- 7. Time, Myth and Power: The River (2012) -- 8. Allusion: The Ferryman (2017). |
Sommario/riassunto: | Jez Butterworth is undoubtedly one of the most popular and commercially successful playwrights to have emerged in Britain in the early twenty-first century. This book, only the second so far to have been written on him, argues that the power of his most acclaimed work comes from a reinvigoration of traditional forms of tragedy expressed in a theatricalized working-class language. Butterworth’s most developed tragedies invoke myth and legend as a figurative resistance to the flat and crushing instrumentalism of contemporary British political and economic culture. In doing so they summon older, resonant narratives which are both popular and high-cultural in order to address present cultural crises in a language and in a form which possess wide appeal. Tracing the development of Butterworth’s work chronologically from Mojo (1995) to The Ferryman (2017), each chapter offers detailed critical readings of a single play, exploring how myth and legend become significant in a variety of ways to Butterworth’s presentation of cultural and personal crisis. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Class, culture and tragedy in the plays of Jez Butterworth |
ISBN: | 3-030-62711-X |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910483081003321 |
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