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Presents new scholarship on the innovative playwright Caryl Churchill, discussing her major plays alongside topics including sexual politics and terror.
Author : Elaine Aston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521493226
Presents new scholarship on the innovative playwright Caryl Churchill, discussing her major plays alongside topics including sexual politics and terror.
Author : Elaine Aston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 35,48 MB
Release : 2000-05-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1139825720
This Companion, first published in 2000, addresses the work of women playwrights in Britain throughout the twentieth century. The chapters explore the historical and theatrical contexts in which women have written for the theatre and examine the work of individual playwrights. A chronological section on playwriting from the 1920s to the 1970s is followed by chapters which raise issues of nationality and identity. Later sections question accepted notions of the canon and include chapters on non-mainstream writing, including black and lesbian performance. Each section is introduced by the editors, who provide a narrative overview of a century of women's drama and a thorough chronology of playwriting, set in political context. The collection includes essays on the individual writers Caryl Churchill, Sarah Daniels, Pam Gems and Timberlake Wertenbaker as well as extensive documentation of contemporary playwriting in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, including figures such as Liz Lochhead and Anne Devlin.
Author : David Wiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521766362
A wide-ranging set of essays that explain what theatre history is and why we need to engage with it.
Author : Elaine Aston
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 2010-07
Category :
ISBN : 0746312083
First published in 1997.
Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 39,73 MB
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107159628
A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.
Author : Mary Luckhurst
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 2006-01-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1139448188
Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre is a substantial history of the origins of dramaturgs and literary managers. It frames the explosion of professional appointments in England within a wider continental map reaching back to the Enlightenment and eighteenth-century Germany, examining the work of the major theorists and practitioners of dramaturgy, from Granville Barker and Gotthold Lessing to Brecht and Tynan. This study positions Brecht's model of dramaturgy as central to the worldwide revolution in theatre-making practices, and it also makes a substantial argument for Granville Barker's and Tynan's contributions to the development of literary management. With the territories of play and performance-making being increasingly hotly contested, and the public's appetite for new plays showing no sign of diminishing, Mary Luckhurst investigates the dramaturg as a cultural and political phenomenon.
Author : Elaine Aston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 15,55 MB
Release : 2003-11-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1139441531
Feminist Views on the English Stage, first published in 2003, is an exciting and insightful study on drama from a feminist perspective, one that challenges an idea of the 1990s as a 'post-feminist' decade and pays attention to women's playwriting marginalized by a 'renaissance' of angry young men. Working through a generational mix of writers, from Sarah Kane, the iconoclastic 'bad girl' of the stage, to the 'canonical' Caryl Churchill, Elaine Aston charts the significant political and aesthetic changes in women's playwriting at the century's end. Aston also explores writing for the 1990s in theatre by Sarah Daniels, Bryony Lavery, Phyllis Nagy, Winsome Pinnock, Rebecca Prichard, Judy Upton and Timberlake Wertenbaker.
Author : Ben Etherington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,46 MB
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108471374
This Companion presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to the major ideas and practices of world literary studies.
Author : Caryl Churchill
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0415901359
A two-act play in which preconceptions about gender, romance, and "lifestyle" are scrambled, neutralized, and possibly even rebuilt.
Author : Caryl Churchill
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573693328
"This timely drama resulted from a trip to Romania. Developed with students from London's Central School of Drama, this is an incisive portrait of society in turmoil that focuses on two families to reveal what life is like under a totalitarian regime and what results when the regime collapses. The play's brief scenes are almost cinematic in their presentation of events as seen by ordinary people trying to live in peace." -- Publisher's description