Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-44452-3 (ISBN)
Graham Saunders is Allardyce Nicol Professor of Drama Arts at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is author of Love me or Kill me: Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes (2002), About Kane: the Playwright and the Work (2009), Patrick Marber’s Closer (2008) and British Theatre Companies 1980-1994 (2015). He is co-editor of Cool Britannia: Political Theatre in the 1990s (Palgrave, 2008) and Sarah Kane in Context (2010).
Contents.- Acknowledgements.- 1. Introduction: Appropriating the Past.- 2. Why Rewrite Shakespeare & his Contemporaries?.- 3. A Host of Lears: Howard Barker's Seven Lears, Elaine Feinstein's Lear's Daughters and Sarah Kane’s Blasted.- 4. ‘Love in the Museum’: Howard Barker, the Erotic and the Classical Text.- 5. ‘If Power Change Purpose’: Appropriation and the Shakespearian Despot.- 6. Anyone for Venice? Wesker. Marowitz & Pascal Appropriate The Merchant of Venice.- 7. Festive Tragedy: Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem.- Bibliography.- Index.
Erscheinungsdatum | 04.11.2017 |
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Reihe/Serie | Adaptation in Theatre and Performance |
Zusatzinfo | XI, 194 p. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
Schlagworte | Adaptation • contemporary theatre • Sarah Kane • Shakespeare • Tom Stoppard |
ISBN-10 | 1-137-44452-5 / 1137444525 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-44452-3 / 9781137444523 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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