'Upstart Crows'
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Köp båda 2 för 1375 krThe most satisfying aspects of the book are the more sustained readings of such complex and highly thought-provoking playtexts as Butterworths, Kanes, or Greigs that it manages to focus on for more than a few paragraphs. the study provides rich material and collects many pertinent quotations from relevant sources. (Tobias Dring, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 8 (2), 2020)
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 Marbers 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 Kanes 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 Butterworths Jerusalem.- Bibliography.- Index.