The Theatre and Films of Jez Butterworth

David Ian Rabey is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Aberystwyth University, UK, and Artistic Director of Lurking Truth/Gwir sy’n Llechu Theatre Company. His critical publications include Howard Barker: Politics and Desire (1989, 2009), David Rudkin: Sacred Disobedience (1997), English Drama Since 1940 (2003), Howard Barker: Ecstasy and Death (2009), and the forthcoming, Theatre and Time (2016). He has co-edited two collections of essays, Theatre of Catastrophe (2006) and Howard Barker's Art of Theatre (2013). His plays include two volumes, The Wye Plays (2004) and Lovefuries (2008).

Acknowledgments
References and Abbreviations
A Prologue, with questions: ‘The isle is full of noises…’
1. Fairy Tales of Hard Men
2. Mojo, Birthday Girl: What Will Happen?
Mojo: Shakin’ All Over
Birthday Girl: The brave, and the reasonable
3. The Night Heron: A Noose of Briars
4. The Winterling and Leavings: Becoming a Stranger
5. Parlour Song: Men Have Their Uses
6. JERUSALEM: The Keys to the Forest
7. Fair Game, The River: Hunter and Game
Fair Game: Freedom and Security
The River: Trophies of My Lovers Gone
8. Performance and Critical Perspectives
Jerusalem in Gotham, or Butterworth on Broadway, by James D. Balestrieri
Still Puzzling it Out: Jez Butterworth’s The River: Puzzling as Process, by Mary Karen Dahl
Butterworth’s poetics of absence, by Elisabeth Angel-Perez
9. Inconclusion: Burn the Plans
Notes
Chronology
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index