Animal Presence in Contemporary British Theatre

Beyond the Human

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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This book is the first comprehensive study of the presence of animals in contemporary British drama and theatre and their thought-provoking intersections with the human characters and actors with whom they have increasingly come to share the stage. Why have animals become so ubiquitous on the contemporary stage? What are theatre-makers trying to achieve by increasingly peopling their landscapes with nonhuman figures and, indeed, actors? Taking stock of the expanding presence, role and agency of animals in British theatre and drama over recent decades, this book investigates the payoffs – conceptual, cognitive, aesthetic, and political – of an art practice that purposefully relocates the animal within a culturally powerful anthropocentric stronghold. In their simultaneous engagement with the boundaries of subjectivity and the boundaries of theatre, the plays considered in this volume provide a larger framework for thinking humanity beyond the human.

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Utgivningsdatum2027-02-04
Mått138 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt299 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMethuen Drama Engage
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350503144

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Sara Soncini is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Pisa, Italy. Her main research interests lie in contemporary British and Irish drama, modern-day reproductions of Shakespeare, Restoration and 18th-century theatre. She is the author of, among others, Forms of Conflict: Contemporary Wars on the British Stage (2015) and Le metamorfosi di Sarah Kane: 4.48 Psychosis sulle scene italiane (2020), a monograph study on Italian performances of Kane’s last play. Her edited volumes include Myths of Europe (2007) and Shakespeare and Conflict: A European Perspective (2013).

List of figures AcknowledgementsNote on terminologyIntroduction: ‘A ten foot tall bird enters’1. Re-visioningsRegarding the pain of animals Welcome to the abattoirUnaccommodated man2. Biopolitical battlefieldsSpecies at warBorder troubleUnruly bodies3. New intimacies, new identitiesDangerous liaisonsCompanion species4. Dramatis animaliaStealing the sceneIntruders and saboteursGetting into the actImpersonationsThe animal that therefore I amChronology of works discussedBibliographyIndex of namesIndex of animals