| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages) : illustrations |
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Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture |
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Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture.
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| Contents |
pt. I. National politics and identities. Europe in flux : exploring revolution and migration in British plays of the 1990s / Geoff Willcocks -- 'I'll see you yesterday' : Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and the captivating past / Claire Gleitman -- Black British drama and the politics of identity / D. Keith Peacock -- Northern Irish drama : speaking the peace / Tom Maguire -- pt. II. Sites, cities and landscapes. The production of 'site' : site-specific theatre / Fiona Wilkie -- Staging an urban nation : place and identity in contemporary Welsh theatre / Heike Roms -- The landscape of contemporary Scottish drama : place, politics and identity / Nadine Holdsworth -- pt. III. The body, text and the real. The body's cruel joke : the comic theatre of Sarah Kane / Ken Urban -- Physical theatre : complicite and the question of authority / Helen Freshwater -- Verbatim theatre, media relations, and ethics / Mary Luckhurst -- pt. IV. Science, ethics and new technologies. Theatre and science / David Higgins -- From the state of the nation to globalization : shifting political agendas in contemporary British playwriting / Dan Rebellato -- Theatre for a media-saturated age / Sarah Gorman |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English drama -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
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English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Theater -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Holdsworth, Nadine.
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Luckhurst, Mary.
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Blackwell Reference Online (Online service)
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| ISBN |
0470766123 (electronic bk.) |
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1405130539 (electronic) |
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1405177497 |
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9780470766125 (electronic bk.) |
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9781405130530 (electronic) |
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9781405177498 |
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