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The politics and poetics of contemporary English tragedy / Sean Carney.
LIBRA PR739.P64 C37 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carney, Sean, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
- English drama (Tragedy).
- English drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- English drama--21st century--History and criticism.
- Politics in literature.
- Loss (Psychology) in literature.
- Self in literature.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 346 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- 1 The Work of Mourning, or, The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Bourgeoisie / David Hare Hare, David 25
- The Year of Magical Thinking
- Teeth 'n' Smiles
- Plenty
- The Secret Rapture
- Skylight
- Amy's View
- The Judas Kiss
- My Zinc Bed
- The Permanent Way
- The Vertical Hour
- Gethsemane
- 2 Will and Desire - From the Tragedy of Socialism to the Ecstasy of the Unconscious / Howard Barker Barker, Howard 68
- Claw
- Fair Slaughter
- That Good Between Us
- The Power of the Dog
- Victory
- The Castle
- The Europeans
- The Possibilities
- Gertrude
- The Cry
- Dead Hands
- The Seduction of Almighty God by the Boy Priest Loftus in the Abbey of Calcetto, 1539
- 3 Tragedy and Postmodernity, or, The Promethean Impulse / Edward Bond Bond, Edward 123
- Saved
- Lear
- Bingo
- The Fool
- Restoration
- The War Plays
- Olly's Prison
- At the Inland Sea
- Coffee
- The Crime of the Twenty-First Century
- Chair
- 4 The Dionysian Möbius Strip / Caryl Churchill Churchill, Caryl 175
- Seven Jewish Children
- Lovesick
- Abortive
- Owners
- Traps
- Light Shining in Buckinghamshire
- Cloud Nine
- Top Girls
- Fen
- A Mouthful of Birds
- Lives of the Great Poisoners
- The Skriker
- Thyestes
- Far Away
- A Number
- 5 New English Tragedians: The Tragedy of the Tragic 231
- Mark Ravenhill: Shopping and Fucking
- Faust Is Dead
- Handbag
- Some Explicit Polaroids
- Product
- The Cut-pool (no water)
- Sarah Kane: Blasted
- Phaedra's Love
- Cleansed
- Crave
- 4.48 Psychosis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-334) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442645738
- 1442645733
- 9781442613973
- 1442613971
- OCLC:
- 795756579
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