Contemporary Drama in English Studies – serie
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18 produkter
Sublime Drama
British Theatre of the 1990s
Inbunden, 2013
2345 kr
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British drama of the 1990s is most commonly associated with the term in-yer-face theatre, which was coined by Aleks Sierz to describe the shocking and provocative work of emerging playwrights such as Mark Ravenhill or Sarah Kane. Taking a cue from Sierz’s own suggestion that what still remains to …
Martin Crimp's Theatre
Collapse as Resistance to Late Capitalist Society
Inbunden, 2013
2345 kr
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This book reads Martin Crimp’s The Treatment (1993), Attempts on her Life (1997), The Country (2000), Face to the Wall (2002), Cruel and Tender (2004) and his adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull (2006) in the context of contemporary, late capitalist societies of control or of ‘spectacle’, and …
Liveness on Stage
Intermedial Challenges in Contemporary British Theatre and Performance
Inbunden, 2014
2149 kr
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Theatre is traditionally considered a live medium but its ‘liveness’ can no longer simply be taken for granted in view of the increasing mediatisation of the stage.Drawing on theories of intermediality, Liveness on Stage explores how performances that incorporate film or video self-reflexively …
Rethinking Character in Contemporary British Theatre
Aesthetics, Politics, Subjectivity
Inbunden, 2015
1535 kr
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The category of theatrical character has been swiftly dismissed in the academic reception of no-longer-dramatic texts and performances. However, claims on the dissolution of character narrowly demarcate what a subject is and how it may appear. This volume unmoors theatre scholarship from the …
Theatre on Terror
Subject Positions in British Drama
Inbunden, 2017
1962 kr
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In a moment of intense uncertainty surrounding the means, ends, and limits of (countering) terrorism, this study approaches the recent theatres of war through theatrical stagings of terror. Theatre on Terror: Subject Positions in British Drama charts the terrain of contemporary subjectivities both …
Of Precariousness
Vulnerabilities, Responsibilities, Communities in 21st-Century British Drama and Theatre
Av Mireia Aragay, Martin Middeke
Inbunden, 2017
1656 kr
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Drawing primarily on Judith Butler’s, Jacques Derrida’s, Emmanuel Levinas’s and Jean-Luc Nancy’s reflections on precariousness/precarity, the Self and the Other, ethical responsibility/obligation, forgiveness, hos(ti)pitality and community, the essays in this volume examine the various ways in …
Theatre on Terror
Subject Positions in British Drama
Häftad, 2018
375 kr
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In a moment of intense uncertainty surrounding the means, ends, and limits of (countering) terrorism, this study approaches the recent theatres of war through theatrical stagings of terror. Theatre on Terror: Subject Positions in British Drama charts the terrain of contemporary subjectivities both …
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Vulnerabilities, Responsibilities, Communities in 21st-Century British Drama and Theatre
Av Mireia Aragay, Martin Middeke
Häftad, 2019
436 kr
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Drawing primarily on Judith Butler’s, Jacques Derrida’s, Emmanuel Levinas’s and Jean-Luc Nancy’s reflections on precariousness/precarity, the Self and the Other, ethical responsibility/obligation, forgiveness, hos(ti)pitality and community, the essays in this volume examine the various ways in …
Beyond Documentary Realism
Aesthetic Transgressions in British Verbatim Theatre
Inbunden, 2021
1613 kr
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Verbatim theatre, a type of performance based on actual words spoken by ''real people'', has been at the heart of a remarkable and unexpected renaissance of the genre in Great Britain since the mid-nineties. The central aim of the book is to critically explore and account for the relationship …
Performing Immanence
Forced Entertainment
Av Jan Suk
Inbunden, 2021
1498 kr
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Performing Immanence: Forced Entertainment is a unique probe into the multi-faceted nature of the works of the British experimental theatre Forced Entertainment via the thought of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.Jan Suk explores the transformation-potentiality of the territory between the actors …
Love in Contemporary British Drama
Traditions and Transformations of a Cultural Emotion
Inbunden, 2021
1863 kr
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Despite the recent turn to affects and emotions in the humanities and despite the unceasing popularity of romantic and erotic love as a motif in fictional works of all genres, the subject has received surprisingly little attention in academic studies of contemporary drama. Love in Contemporary …
Twenty-First Century Anxieties
Dys/Utopian Spaces and Contexts in Contemporary British Theatre
Av Merle Tönnies, Eckart Voigts
Inbunden, 2022
1613 kr
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The volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine how 21st-century British theatre increasingly intercuts dystopian and utopian elements to create innovative strategies for addressing current social and political concerns. In the case studies, a key role is given to the ways in which the …
New Wave of British Women Playwrights
2008 – 2021
Av Elisabeth Angel-Perez, Aloysia Rousseau
Inbunden, 2023
1455 kr
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It is a fact that today’s British stages resound with powerfully innovative voices and that, very often, these voices have been those of young women playwrights. This collection of essays gives visibility and pride of place to these fascinating voices by exploring the vitality, inventiveness and …
Love in Contemporary British Drama
Traditions and Transformations of a Cultural Emotion
Häftad, 2022
305 kr
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Despite the recent turn to affects and emotions in the humanities and despite the unceasing popularity of romantic and erotic love as a motif in fictional works of all genres, the subject has received surprisingly little attention in academic studies of contemporary drama. Love in Contemporary …
Twenty-First Century Anxieties
Dys/Utopian Spaces and Contexts in Contemporary British Theatre
Av Merle Tönnies, Eckart Voigts
Häftad, 2024
302 kr
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The volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine how 21st-century British theatre increasingly intercuts dystopian and utopian elements to create innovative strategies for addressing current social and political concerns. In the case studies, a key role is given to the ways in which the …
Theatre of Anxiety
Border Crossings in 21st-Century British Theatre
Inbunden, 2024
1842 kr
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We are living in times when populism, war and climate change are all sources of anxiety caused by overlapping crises. Anxiety is a phenomenon that is not just reflected everywhere around us but is also increasingly manifesting itself in contemporary drama: particularly in the last five to ten years …
New Wave of British Women Playwrights
2008 – 2021
Av Elisabeth Angel-Perez, Aloysia Rousseau
Häftad, 2024
302 kr
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It is a fact that today’s British stages resound with powerfully innovative voices and that, very often, these voices have been those of young women playwrights. This collection of essays gives visibility and pride of place to these fascinating voices by exploring the vitality, inventiveness and …
Irish Transformations of Greek Tragedy
Mothers, Families, Communities
Inbunden, 2025
1613 kr
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This study examines ten Irish versions of Greek tragedy that have been written and produced between 1988 and 2019. Its focus is on the transformations that different formal elements of the Greek plays undergo in conjunction with the foregrounding of specific thematic fields. The study identifies a …
