Adaptation and Nation

Catherine Rees is Lecturer in Drama at Loughborough University, UK.  She works primarily on contemporary British and Irish playwrights, and has published on Martin McDonagh, Sarah Kane and Harold Pinter.  She is especially interested in questions of nationalism, gender and political theatre.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Brian Friel.- Chapter 3. Marina Carr.- Chapter 4. Sarah Kane.- Chapter 5. Patrick Marber.- Chapter 6. “An Interlude”.- Chapter 7. Martin McDonagh.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index.

“The [book] supply useful indices and are edited to high academic Standards … . They can be wholeheartedly recommended and testify to the vibrancy of adaptation studies way beyond the traditional novel-into-film model.” (Eckart Voigts, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 8 (2), 2020)