A companion to modern British and Irish drama, 1880-2005

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電子ブック

責任表示:

edited by Mary Luckhurst

出版情報:

2006

著者名:

• Luckhurst, Mary.
• Wiley InterScience (Online service)

シリーズ名:

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 43

ISBN:

9780470751480 [0470751487]    
9781405122283 [1405122285]    
9781405165525 [1405165529]    
9780470751473 [0470751479]    

注記:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover13; -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Contexts -- 1 Domestic and Imperial Politics in Britain and Ireland: 13;The Testimony of Irish Theatre -- 2 Reinventing England -- 3 Ibsen in the English Theatre in the Fin de Si232;cle -- 4 New Woman Drama -- Part II Mapping New Ground, 19008211;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 Fireworks -- 11 Auden and Eliot: Theatres of the Thirties -- Part III England, Class and Empire, 19398211;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
This Companion provides a set of provocative agendas for investigating modern drama. It offers the most comprehensive challenge to existing constructions of the canon and examines in detail the dialogue between developments in Britain and Ireland. Contributors investigate radical postcolonial readings, offer revisionist feminist critiques, and reflect on why certain playwrights have been written in and others written out. Why have certain institutions dominated the constructions of dramatic canons? What role have female playwrights adopted in challenging stage conventions and modes of production? These are among the questions addressed by the "Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama". The volume analyses a wide range of plays and performance traditions, and explores the political, cultural, economic and institutional frameworks that readers require in order to get to grips with them. The Companion plots continuities and discontinuities, innovations, and resistances to the new. Its authoritative contributi
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