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A companion to modern British and Irish drama, 1880-2005 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mary Luckhurst
| A companion to modern British and Irish drama, 1880-2005 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mary Luckhurst |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (604 p.) |
| Disciplina |
822.909
822/.9109 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LuckhurstMary |
| Collana | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
| Soggetto topico |
English drama - 20th century - History and criticism
English drama - Irish authors - History and criticism |
| 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 | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910145286803321 |
| Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A companion to modern British and Irish drama, 1880-2005 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mary Luckhurst
| A companion to modern British and Irish drama, 1880-2005 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mary Luckhurst |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (604 p.) |
| Disciplina |
822.909
822/.9109 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LuckhurstMary |
| Collana | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
| Soggetto topico |
English drama - 20th century - History and criticism
English drama - Irish authors - History and criticism |
| 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 | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996213973903316 |
| Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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