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A concise companion to contemporary British and Irish drama / edited by Nadine Holdsworth and Mary Luckhurst.

Contributor(s): Holdsworth, Nadine | Luckhurst, MaryMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell concise companions to literature and culturePublication details: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2008. Description: xiii, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781405130530 (alk. paper); 1405130539 (alk. paper)Subject(s): English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism | English drama -- Irish authors -- History and criticism | Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Theater -- Ireland -- History -- 20th centuryAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Concise companion to contemporary British and Irish drama.; Online version:: Concise companion to contemporary British and Irish drama.DDC classification: 822/.9109 LOC classification: PR736 | .C576 2008Other classification: 24.10 | 18.05 Online resources: Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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