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A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880 - 2005 (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

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 multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.

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Autor

Mary Luckhurst is Senior Lecturer in Modern Drama at the University of York. She is the author of Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre (2006), co-author of The Drama Handbook: A Guide to Reading Plays (2002), and co-editor of Theatre and Celebrity in Britain, 1660-2000 (2005). She has also edited The Creative Writing Handbook: Techniques for New Writers (1996), On Directing: Interviews with Directors (1999), and On Acting: Interviews with Actors (2002). She was awarded a University of York outstanding teaching award in 2006 and is also one of the Higher Education Academy's National Teaching Fellows.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470751473
• Artikelnr.: 38215786

Rezensionen

"Offers strong and accessible scholarship on major playwrights andaspects of theatrical history and historiography, and usefullyreflects on its own practices and agendas, and will be extremelyuseful to students and theatre scholars." Cercles

"A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama 1880-2005 isa much needed intervention in the field, with its substantialcoverage of Irish drama and significant essays on the work of womenplaywrights, as well as solid coverage of the usual suspects. It isprofitably innovative in terms of both structure and content. Manyvolumes with such a coverage remit fail to ever go much beyond thestandard canonical playwrights and texts...a 'must buy'for all University libraries...this is a volume which will havecurrency for years to come." New Theatre Quarterly

"Luckhurst argues for a reassessment of 'Englishness,' and,accordingly, this companion emphasizes postcolonial and feministagendas and questions the dominance of urban locales and certaintheatrical institutions...combined, the essays provide a necessaryreassessment of British and Irish drama." Choice

"There is so much valuable material in the book that it issure to be frequently read and consulted."
Donald Hawes, Reference Reviews