A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama 1880 2005 1st Edition by Mary Luckhurst ISBN 144433204X 978-1444332049

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ISBN 10: 144433204X 

ISBN 13: 978-1444332049

Author: Mary Luckhurst

This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity.

• An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama.
• Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism.
• Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.

Table of contents:

Part I Contexts
Chapter 1 Domestic and Imperial Politics in Britain and Ireland: The Testimony of Irish Theatre
Chapter 2 Reinventing England
Chapter 3 Ibsen in the English Theatre in the Fin de Siècle
Chapter 4 New Woman Drama

Part II Mapping New Ground, 1900–1939
Chapter 5 Shaw among the Artists
Chapter 6 Granville Barker and the Court Dramatists
Chapter 7 Gregory, Yeats and Ireland’s Abbey Theatre
Chapter 8 Suffrage Theatre: Community Activism and Political Commitment
Chapter 9 Unlocking Synge Today
Chapter 10 Sean O’Casey’s Powerful Fireworks
Chapter 11 Auden and Eliot: Theatres of the Thirties

Part III England, Class and Empire, 1939–1990
Chapter 12 Empire and Class in the Theatre of John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy
Chapter 13 When Was the Golden Age? Narratives of Loss and Decline: John Osborne, Arnold Wesker and Rodney Ackland
Chapter 14 A Commercial Success: Women Playwrights in the 1950s
Chapter 15 Home Thoughts from Abroad: Mustapha Matura
Chapter 16 The Remains of the British Empire: The Plays of Winsome Pinnock

Part IV Comedy
Chapter 17 Wilde’s Comedies
Chapter 18 Always Acting: Noel Coward and the Performing Self
Chapter 19 Beckett’s Divine Comedy
Chapter 20 Form and Ethics in the Comedies of Brendan Behan
Chapter 21 Joe Orton: Anger, Artifice and Absurdity
Chapter 22 Alan Ayckbourn: Experiments in Comedy
Chapter 23 ‘They Both Add up to Me’: The Logic of Tom Stoppard’s Dialogic Comedy
Chapter 24 Stewart Parker’s Comedy of Terrors

Part V War and Terror
Chapter 25 A Wounded Stage: Drama and World War I
Chapter 26 Staging ‘the Holocaust’ in England
Chapter 27 Troubling Perspectives: Northern Ireland, the ‘Troubles’ and Drama
Chapter 28 On War: Charles Wood’s Military Conscience
Chapter 29 Torture in the Plays of Harold Pinter
Chapter 30 Sarah Kane: From Terror to Trauma

Part VI Theatre since 1968
Chapter 31 Theatre since 1968
Chapter 32 Lesbian and Gay Theatre: All Queer on the West End Front
Chapter 33 Edward Bond: Maker of Myths
Chapter 34 John McGrath and Popular Political Theatre
Chapter 35 David Hare and Political Playwriting: Between the Third Way and the Permanent Way
Chapter 36 Left in Front: David Edgar’s Political Theatre
Chapter 37 Liz Lochhead: Writer and Re-Writer: Stories, Ancient and Modern
Chapter 38 ‘Spirits that Have Become Mean and Broken’: Tom Murphy and the ‘Famine’ of Modern Ireland
Chapter 39 Caryl Churchill: Feeling Global
Chapter 40 Howard Barker and the Theatre of Catastrophe
Chapter 41 Reading History in the Plays of Brian Friel
Chapter 42 Marina Carr: Violence and Destruction: Language, Space and Landscape
Chapter 43 Scrubbing up Nice? Tony Harrison’s Stagings of the Past
Chapter 44 The Question of Multiculturalism: The Plays of Roy Williams
Chapter 45 Ed Thomas: Jazz Pictures in the Gaps of Language
Chapter 46 Theatre and Technology

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