British and Irish Women Dramatists Since 1958
Author: Trevor R. Griffiths
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
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Irish Women Playwrights, 1900-1939
Author: Cathy Leeney
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781433103322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIrish Women Playwrights 1900-1939 is the first book to examine the plays of five fascinating and creative women, placing their work for theatre in co-relation to suggest a parallel tradition that reframes the development of Irish theatre into the present day. How these playwrights dramatize violence and its impacts in political, social, and personal life is a central concern of this book. Augusta Gregory, Eva Gore-Booth, Dorothy Macardle, Mary Manning, and Teresa Deevy re-model theatrical form, re-structuring action and narrative, and exploring closure as a way of disrupting audience expectation. Their plays create stage spaces and images that expose relationships of power and authority, and invite the audience to see the performance not as illusion, but as framed by the conventions and limits of theatrical representation. Irish Women Playwrights 1900-1939 is suitable for courses in Irish theatre, women in theatre, gender and performance, dramaturgy, and Irish drama in the twentieth century as well as for those interested in women's work in theatre and in Irish theatre in the twentieth century.
A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880 - 2005
Author: Mary Luckhurst
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 0470751479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
British and Irish Dramatists Since World War II.
Author: John Stanley Bull
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmbraces the work of writers working in theatrical traditions ranging from the classic well-made play to the most radical avant-garde pieces. This variety is indicative of the fact that this period is one of the most important in British drama, comparable to the late-Elizabethan/Jacobean and post-Restoration eras in terms of the quantity and quality of new work and surpassing both of them in the sheer variety of theatrical offerings.
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights
Author: Martin Middeke
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-10-17
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 1408159678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights who have risen to prominence since the 1980s. Written by an international team of scholars, it will be invaluable to anyone interested in, studying or teaching contemporary drama. Among the many playwrights whose work is examined are Sarah Daniels, Terry Johnson, Martin Crimp, Sarah Kane, Anthony Neilson, Mark Ravenhill, Simon Stephens, Debbie Tucker Green, Tanika Gupta and Richard Bean. Each essay features: A biographical sketch and introduction to the playwright A discussion of their most important plays An analysis of their stylistic and thematic traits, the critical reception and their place in the discourses of British theatre A bibliography of texts and critical material
The History of British Women's Writing, 1945-1975
Author: Clare Hanson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-09-14
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1137477369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume reshapes our understanding of British literary culture from 1945-1975 by exploring the richness and diversity of women’s writing of this period. Essays by leading scholars reveal the range and intensity of women writers’ engagement with post-war transformations including the founding of the Welfare State, the gradual liberalization of attitudes to gender and sexuality and the reconfiguration of Britain and the empire in the context of the Cold War. Attending closely to the politics of form, the sixteen essays range across ‘literary’, ‘middlebrow’ and ‘popular’ genres, including espionage thrillers and historical fiction, children’s literature and science fiction, as well as poetry, drama and journalism. They examine issues including realism and experimentalism, education, class and politics, the emergence of ‘second-wave’ feminism, responses to the Holocaust and mass migration and diaspora. The volume offers an exciting reassessment of women’s writing at a time of radical social change and rapid cultural expansion.
English Drama Since 1940
Author: David Ian Rabey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-10-13
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1317875397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnglish Drama Since 1940 considers the bids of successive post-war dramatists to find language and images of remorseless disclosure, appropriate to the public manifestation of sensed crisis and the interrogation of the ideal of renewal. This book introduces the period and its discourse whilst redefining them, to give proper consideration to developments of themes, styles, concerns and contexts from the 80s to the present. The book offers succinct and analytical introductions to the work of 60 dramatists, whilst arguing for (re)appraisal of many dates critical perspectives, in order to stimulate further argument in the field.
British Literature in Transition, 1940-1960: Postwar
Author: Gill Plain
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 1107119014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines debates central to postwar British culture, showing the pressures of reconstruction and the mutual implication of war and peace.
The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights
Author: Elaine Aston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521595339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion, first published in 2000, addresses the work of women playwrights in Britain throughout the twentieth century.
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights
Author: Martin Middeke
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2010-08-10
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 1408198622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights from the last 50 years whose work has helped to shape and define Irish theatre. Written by a team of international scholars, it provides an illuminating survey and analysis of each writer's plays and will be invaluable to anyone interested in, studying or teaching contemporary Irish drama. The playwrights examined range from John B. Keane, Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, to the crop of writers who emerged in the 1990s and who include Martin McDonagh, Marina Carr, Emma Donoghue and Mark O'Rowe. Each essay features: a biographical sketch and introduction to the playwright a discussion of their most important plays an analysis of their stylistic and thematic traits, the critical reception and their place in the discourses of Irish theatre a bibliography of texts and critical material With a total of 190 plays discussed in detail, over half of which were written during the 1990s and 2000s, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is unrivalled in its study of recent plays and playwrights.
