Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-4725-8013-9 (ISBN)
Dramatists discussed include Stephen Phillips, Gordon Bottomley, John Masefield, James Elroy Flecker, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Ronald Duncan, Christopher Fry, John Arden, Anne Ridler, Tony Harrison, Steven Berkoff, Caryl Churchill, and Mike Bartlett. The book explores the negotiation of these dramatists with the changing position of verse drama in relation to constructions of national and communal audience, aesthetic challenge, and dramatic heritage. Key to the study is the self-conscious positioning of many of these dramatists in relation to an assumed mainstream tradition – and the various critical responses that that positioning has provoked. The study advocates for a scholarly revaluation of what must be identified as an influential and overlooked tradition of aesthetic challenge and creativity.
Dr Irene Morra is Reader in English Literature at Cardiff University, UK. She is the author of Britishness, Popular Music, and National Identity: The Making of Modern Britain and Twentieth-Century British Authors and the Rise of Opera in Britain.
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Modern Verse Drama in England: The Forgotten Tradition
1. Nineteenth Century-Legacies: Spectacle, Sonority and Romantic Reform in the Theatre of Stephen Phillips and James Elroy Flecker
2. The New Drama: Social Challenge and Poetic Theatre from W. B. Yeats to Terence Gray
3. Georgian Revolt: John Masefield, Shakespeare and Gordon Bottomley’s King Lear’s Wife
4. Religious Drama: Theatrical Experimentation and Spiritual Renewal between the Wars
5. Music, Politics and the Modern Poet: T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden in the 1930s
6. Renaissance and False Dawn: Mainstream Success on the Postwar Stage
7. Anger and Aftermath: Royal Court, National Theatre and Verse Drama after 1956
8. Tradition and Trajectory: Verse and Dramatic Heritage in Caryl Churchill, Steven Berkoff and Tony Harrison
9. The Return of the King: King Charles III and Shakespearean Power and Pastiche
Bibliography
Erscheinungsdatum | 20.10.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | Critical Companions |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 349 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4725-8013-3 / 1472580133 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4725-8013-9 / 9781472580139 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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