Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth / / by Sean McEvoy
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| Autore: |
McEvoy Sean <1959->
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| Titolo: |
Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth / / by Sean McEvoy
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2021. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (VII, 217 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 822.914 |
| 822.92 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Theater - History |
| Playwriting | |
| Dramatists | |
| Drama | |
| Contemporary Theatre and Performance | |
| Playwrights and Playwriting | |
| 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: | 9783030627119 |
| 303062711X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910483081003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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