Elizabethan And Jacobean Reappropriation In Contemporary British Drama
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Elizabethan And Jacobean Reappropriation In Contemporary British Drama
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Author : Graham Saunders
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-10-14
Elizabethan And Jacobean Reappropriation In Contemporary British Drama written by Graham Saunders and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-14 with Performing Arts categories.
This book examines British playwrights' responses to the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries since 1945, from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead to Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem. Using the work of Julie Sanders and others working in the fields of Adaptation Studies and intertextual criticism, it argues that this relatively neglected area of drama, widely considered to be adaptation, should instead be considered as appropriation - as work that often mounts challenges to the ideologies and orthodoxies within Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and questions the legitimacy and cultural authority of Shakespeare’s legacy. The book discusses the work of Howard Barker, Peter Barnes, Edward Bond, Howard Brenton, David Edgar, Elaine Feinstein and the Women’s Theatre Group, David Greig, Sarah Kane, Dennis Kelly, Bernard Kopps, Charles Marowitz, Julia Pascal and Arnold Wesker.
After In Yer Face Theatre
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Author : William C. Boles
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-04-29
After In Yer Face Theatre written by William C. Boles and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-29 with Performing Arts categories.
This book revisits In-Yer-Face theatre, an explosive, energetic theatrical movement from the 1990s that introduced the world to playwrights Sarah Kane, Martin McDonagh, Mark Ravenhill, Jez Butterworth, and many others. Split into three sections the book re-examines the era, considers the movement’s influence on international theatre, and considers its lasting effects on contemporary British theatre. The first section offers new readings on works from that time period (Antony Neilson and Mark Ravenhill) as well as challenges myths created by the Royal Court Theatre about the its involvement with In-Yer-Face theatre. The second section discusses the influence of In-Yer-Face on Portuguese, Russian and Australian theater, while the final section discusses the legacy of In-Yer-Face writers as well as their influences on more recent playwrights, including chapters on Philip Ridley, Sarah Kane, Joe Penhall, Martin Crimp, Dennis Kelly, and Verbatim Drama.
Medieval And Early Modern England On The Contemporary Stage
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Author : Marianne Drugeon
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2021-09-20
Medieval And Early Modern England On The Contemporary Stage written by Marianne Drugeon and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-20 with Performing Arts categories.
This volume explores the multiple connections between contemporary British theatre and the medieval and early modern periods. Involving both French and British scholars, as well as playwrights, adapters and stage directors, its scope is political, as it assesses the power of adaptations and history plays to offer a new perspective not only on the past and present, but also on the future. Along the way, burning contemporary social and political issues are explored, such as the place and role of women and ethnic minorities in today’s post-Brexit Britain. The volume builds into a dialogue between the ghosts of the past and their contemporary spectators. Starting with a focus on contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays, then concentrating on contemporary history plays set in the distant past, and ending with the contributions of famous playwrights sharing their experience, the book will be of interest to practitioners, as well as students and researchers in drama and performance studies.
Representing The Rural On The English Stage
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Author : Gemma Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-06-05
Representing The Rural On The English Stage written by Gemma Edwards and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-05 with Performing Arts categories.
This book explores how the English rural has been represented in contemporary theatre and performance. Exploring a range of plays, forms, and contexts of theatre production, Representing the Rural celebrates the lively engagement with rurality on English stages since 2000, constituting the first full study of theatrical representations of rural life. Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book draws on political philosophy and cultural geography in its definitions of rurality and Englishness, and works with key theoretical concepts such as nostalgia and ethnonationalism. Covering a range of perspectives from the country garden in Mike Bartlett’s Albion to agricultural labour in Nell Leyshon’s The Farm, the enclosure acts in D.C. Moore’s Common to Black rural history in Testament’s Black Men Walking, the book shows how theatre and performance can open up different ways of reading rural geographies, histories, and lives. While Representing the Rural is aimed at students and researchers of theatre and performance, its interdisciplinary scope means that it has wider appeal to other disciplines in the arts and humanities, including geography, politics, and history.
Harold Pinter
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Author : Graham Saunders
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-06-05
Harold Pinter written by Graham Saunders and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-05 with Performing Arts categories.
Harold Pinter provides an up-to-date analysis and reappraisal concerning the work of one of the most studied and performed dramatists in the world. Drawing extensively from The Harold Pinter Archive at the British Library as well as reviews and other critical materials, this book offers new insights into previously established views about his work. The book also analyses and reappraises specific key historical and contemporary productions, including a selection of Pinter’s most significant screenplays. In particular, this volume seeks to assess Pinter’s critical reputation and legacy since his death in 2008. These include his position as a political writer and political activist – from disassociation and neutrality on the subject until relatively late in his career when his drama sought to explicitly address questions of political dissent and torture by totalitarian regimes. The book revisits some familiar territories such as Pinter’s place as a British absurdist and the role memory plays in his work, but it also sets out to explore new territories such as Pinter’s changing attitudes towards gender in the light of #MeToo and queer politics and how in particular a play such as The Caretaker (1960) through several key productions has brought the issues of race into sharper focus. Part of the Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatist series, Harold Pinter provides an essential and accessible guide to the dramatists’ work.
Studying Shakespeare Adaptation
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Author : Pamela Bickley
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-09-17
Studying Shakespeare Adaptation written by Pamela Bickley and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Shakespeare's plays have long been open to reimagining and reinterpretation, from John Fletcher's riposte to The Taming of the Shrew in 1611 to present day spin-offs in a whole range of media, including YouTube videos and Manga comics. This book offers a clear route map through the world of adaptation, selecting examples from film, drama, prose fiction, ballet, the visual arts and poetry, and exploring their respective political and cultural interactions with Shakespeare's plays. 36 specific case studies are discussed, three for each of the 12 plays covered, offering additional guidance for readers new to this important area of Shakespeare studies. The introduction signals key adaptation issues that are subsequently explored through the chapters on individual plays, including Shakespeare's own adaptive art and its Renaissance context, production and performance as adaptation, and generic expectation and transmedial practice. Organized chronologically, the chapters cover the most commonly studied plays, allowing readers to dip in to read about specific plays or trace how technological developments have fundamentally changed ways in which Shakespeare is experienced. With examples encompassing British, North American, South and East Asian, European and Middle Eastern adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, the volume offers readers a wealth of insights drawn from different ages, territories and media.
Elizabethan And Jacobean Drama
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Elizabethan And Jacobean Drama written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with categories.
Act Division In Elizabethan And Jacobean Plays 1583 1616
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Author : Wilfred Thomas Jewkes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Act Division In Elizabethan And Jacobean Plays 1583 1616 written by Wilfred Thomas Jewkes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Drama categories.
British Drama Before 1660
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Author : Jennifer Robin Goodman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
British Drama Before 1660 written by Jennifer Robin Goodman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with English drama categories.
This study covers the development of British drama from the time of the Roman colonization to the restoration of Charles II in 1660. The author provides an overview of scholarship on the subject since 1950, and goes on to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the two main approaches to drama study: stage history and the literary study of drama.
Elizabethan And Jacobean Drama
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Author : Peter Ure
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Elizabethan And Jacobean Drama written by Peter Ure and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with English drama categories.