Staging the Past in the Age of Thatcher (eBook)

"The History We Haven't Had"
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2018 | 1st ed. 2018
IX, 251 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-96686-1 (ISBN)

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Staging the Past in the Age of Thatcher - Anthony P. Pennino
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This book investigates how the British theatrical community offered an alternative and oppositional historical narrative to the heritage culture promulgated by the Thatcher and Major Governments in the 1980s and early 1990s. It details the challenges the theatre faced, especially reductions in government funding, and examines seminal playwrights of the period - including but not limited to Caryl Churchill, Howard Brenton, Sarah Daniels, David Edgar, and Brian Friel - who dramatized a more inclusive vision of history that gave voice to traditionally marginalized communities. It employs James Baldwin's concept of witnessing as the means by which history could be deployed to articulate an alternative and emergent political narrative: 'the history we haven't had'. This book will appeal to students and scholars of theatre and cultural studies as well as theatre practitioners and enthusiasts.


Anthony P. Pennino teaches literature, theatre, and cinema at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA. He works primarily on post-war American, British, and Irish playwrights, and has published on August Wilson and William Shakespeare. He is especially interested in political theatre as well as contemporary performance and adaptation of Shakespeare's canon.

Anthony P. Pennino teaches literature, theatre, and cinema at Stevens Institute of Technology, USA. He works primarily on post-war American, British, and Irish playwrights, and has published on August Wilson and William Shakespeare. He is especially interested in political theatre as well as contemporary performance and adaptation of Shakespeare’s canon.

1. Introduction: A Snowy Night in December.- 2. Competing Histories.- 3. Plays of the First Thatcher Ministry: “To the world’s end. To the churchyard grave”.- 4. Plays of the Second Thatcher Ministry: “Demolition needs a drawing, too”.- 5. Plays of the Third Thatcher Ministry: “I shall destroy your power to resist”.- 6. Plays of the Two Major Ministries: “Let them see we are happy”.- 7. Conclusion: May 2, 1997 and Beyond.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 7.8.2018
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Zusatzinfo IX, 251 p.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Schlagworte Churchill • Conservative Party • Edgar • Edward Bond • hegemony • Howard Barker • Howard Brenton • Northern Ireland • Roman Empire • Tom Stoppard
ISBN-10 3-319-96686-3 / 3319966863
ISBN-13 978-3-319-96686-1 / 9783319966861
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