| Description |
196 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Studies in modern drama ; 19 |
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Studies in modern drama ; 19
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| Contents |
General Editor's Note / Kimball King -- Captive Audience: An Introduction / Thomas Fahy -- 1. The Confessional Voice: Medea's Brutal Imagination / Rena Fraden -- 2. Emotional Contraband: Prison as Metaphor and Meaning in U.S. Latina Drama / Tiffany Ana Lopez -- 3. Seeing Ethnicity: The Impact of Race and Class on the Critical Reception of Miguel Pinero's Short Eyes / Fiona Mills -- 4. On Prisons in the United States: Extract from a Speech Delivered to the Confederation of Analytical Psychologists, London, 25 June 1999 / Harold Pinter -- 5. Harold Pinter's Prison House: The Screenplay of Kafka's the Trial / Ann C. Hall -- 6. Harold Pinter's The Handmaid's Tale: Freedom, Prison, and a Hijacked Script / Christopher C. Hudgins -- 7. "A World of Bodies": Performing Flesh in Marat/Sade / Pamela Cooper -- 8. The Disposal: William Inge's Abject Drama / Robert F. Gross -- 9. "In Dark Corners": Masculinity and Art in Tennessee William's Not About Nightingales / Thomas Fahy -- 10. Physical Prisons: Naomi Wallace's Drama of Captivity / Claudia Barnett -- 11. No Exit and Waiting for Godot: Performances in Contrast / Lois Gordon |
| Summary |
"Captive Audience examines the social, gendered, ethnic, and cultural problems of incarceration through the lens of contemporary theater. The essays gathered here engage a broad range of plays by African-American, Latino/a, British, and other American playwrights who give voice to those long hidden behind prison walls. Topics related to the intersection of theater and imprisonment are explored from a variety of critical perspectives, illuminating the dark worlds portrayed in captivity dramas by Migdalia Cruz, Miguel Pinero, Tennessee Williams, Naomi Wallace, and Samuel Beckett, among others. Thomas Fahy and Kimball King have assembled a distinguished group of contributors, including the renowned playwright, screenwriter, and social activist Harold Pinter. Captive Audience is essential reading for anyone interested in theater and social justice."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Prisons in literature.
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Prisoners in literature.
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Imprisonment in literature.
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| Author |
King, Kimball.
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Fahy, Thomas Richard.
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| LC no. |
2003002697 |
| ISBN |
0415965802 hardback alkaline paper |
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