A companion to modern British and Irish drama, 1880-2005 / edited by Mary Luckhurst.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luckhurst, Mary.

Series:

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 43.

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--20th century--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

English drama.

English drama--Irish authors--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Ireland--Intellectual life--20th century--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Ireland.

England--Intellectual life--20th century--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (604 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

A COMPANION TO MODERNBRITISH AND I RISHDRAMA; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Contexts; 1 Domestic and Imperial Politics in Britain and Ireland: The Testimony of Irish Theatre; 2 Reinventing England; 3 Ibsen in the English Theatre in the Fin de Siècle; 4 New Woman Drama; Part II Mapping New Ground, 1900-1939; 5 Shaw among the Artists; 6 Granville Barker and the Court Dramatists; 7 Gregory, Yeats and Ireland's Abbey Theatre; 8 Suffrage Theatre: Community Activism and Political Commitment; 9 Unlocking Synge Today

10 Sean O'Casey's Powerful Fireworks11 Auden and Eliot: Theatres of the Thirties; Part III England, Class and Empire, 1939-1990; 12 Empire and Class in the Theatre of John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy; 13 When Was the Golden Age? Narratives of Loss and Decline: John Osborne, Arnold Wesker and Rodney Ackland; 14 A Commercial Success: Women Playwrights in the 1950s; 15 Home Thoughts from Abroad: Mustapha Matura; 16 The Remains of the British Empire: The Plays of Winsome Pinnock; Part IV Comedy; 17 Wilde's Comedies; 18 Always Acting: Noël Coward and the Performing Self; 19 Beckett's Divine Comedy

20 Form and Ethics in the Comedies of Brendan Behan21 Joe Orton: Anger, Artifice and Absurdity; 22 Alan Ayckbourn: Experiments in Comedy; 23 'They Both Add up to Me': The Logic of Tom Stoppard's Dialogic Comedy; 24 Stewart Parker's Comedy of Terrors; Part V War and Terror; 25 A Wounded Stage: Drama and World War I; 26 Staging 'the Holocaust' in England; 27 Troubling Perspectives: Northern Ireland, the 'Troubles' and Drama; 28 On War: Charles Wood's Military Conscience; 29 Torture in the Plays of Harold Pinter; 30 Sarah Kane: From Terror to Trauma; Part VI Theatre since 1968

31 Theatre since 196832 Lesbian and Gay Theatre: All Queer on the West End Front; 33 Edward Bond: Maker of Myths; 34 John McGrath and Popular Political Theatre; 35 David Hare and Political Playwriting: Between the Third Way and the Permanent Way; 36 Left in Front: David Edgar's Political Theatre; 37 Liz Lochhead: Writer and Re-Writer: Stories, Ancient and Modern; 38 'Spirits that Have Become Mean and Broken': Tom Murphy and the 'Famine' of Modern Ireland; 39 Caryl Churchill: Feeling Global; 40 Howard Barker and the Theatre of Catastrophe; 41 Reading History in the Plays of Brian Friel

42 Marina Carr: Violence and Destruction: Language, Space and Landscape43 Scrubbing up Nice? Tony Harrison's Stagings of the Past; 44 The Question of Multiculturalism: The Plays of Roy Williams; 45 Ed Thomas: Jazz Pictures in the Gaps of Language; 46 Theatre and Technology; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9786611322366

9781782686187

1782686185

9781281322364

1281322369

9781405165525

1405165529

9780470751480

0470751487

9780470751473

0470751479

OCLC:

212122634