A concise companion to contemporary British and Irish drama

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Title:

Author:

Holdsworth, Nadine.

ISBN:

9781405130530

Publication Information:

Oxford : Blackwell, 2008.

Physical Description:

xiii, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture.

Series Title:

Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture.

Contents:

Pt. I. National politics and identities -- 1. Europe in flux : exploring revolution and migration in British plays of the 1990s / Geoff Willcocks -- 2. 'I'll see yon yesterday' : Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and the captivating past / Claire Gleitman -- 3. Black British drama and the politics of identity / D. Keith Peacock -- 4. Northern Irish drama : speaking the peace / Tom Maguire -- Pt. II. Sites, cities and landscapes -- 5. The production of 'site' : site-specific theatre / Fiona Wilkie -- 6. Staging an urban nation : place and identity in contemporary Welsh theatre / Heike Roms -- 7. The landscape of contemporary Scottish drama : place, politics and identity / Nadine Holdsworth -- Pt. III. The body, text and the real -- 8. The body's cruel joke : the comic theatre of Sarah Kane / Ken Urban -- 9. Physical theatre : complicite and the question of authority / Helen Freshwater -- 10. Verbatim theatre, media relations and ethics / Mary Luckhurst -- Pt. IV. Science, ethics and new technologies -- 11. Theatre and science / David Higgins -- 12. From the state of the nation to globalization : shifting political agendas in contemporary British playwriting / Dan Rebellato -- 13. Theatre for a media-saturated age / Sarah Gorman.

Abstract:

"Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979. Written by leading international scholars in the field, this collection offers new ways of thinking about the social, political, and cultural contexts within which specific aspects of British and Irish theatre have emerged and explores the relationship between these contexts and the works produced."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

English drama -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.

Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.

Theater -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.

Added Author:

Holdsworth, Nadine.

Luckhurst, Mary.

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Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979. Written by leading international scholars in the field, this collection offers new ways of thinking about the social, political, and cultural contexts within which specific aspects of British and Irish theatre have emerged and explores the relationship between these contexts and the works produced. It investigates why particular issues and practices have emerged as significant in the theatre of this period.