Anthony P. Pennino

Staging the Past in the Age of Thatcher (eBook, PDF)

"The History We Haven't Had"

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319966861
• Artikelnr.: 53516768

Autorenporträt

Inhaltsangabe

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1. Introduction: A Snowy Night in December.- 2. Competing Histories.- 3. Plays of the First Thatcher Ministry: "To the world's end. To the churchyard grave".- 4. Plays of the Second Thatcher Ministry: "Demolition needs a drawing, too".- 5. Plays of the Third Thatcher Ministry: "I shall destroy your power to resist".- 6. Plays of the Two Major Ministries: "Let them see we are happy".- 7. Conclusion: May 2, 1997 and Beyond.

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"Pennino's smart, well-researched study of theater during the age of Margaret Thatcher and her successor, John Major, demonstrates how serious playwrights-Caryl Churchill, David Edgar, Howard Barker, Howard Brenton, David Hare, Tom Stoppard, Timberlake Wertenbaker-created 'oppositional history plays' that offered a starkly different version of British history and contemporary life than was promulgated by government propaganda, the press, and the wildly popular musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." (M. S. LoMonaco,Choice, Vol. 57 (9), 2020)