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Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

AvMartin Middeke,Peter Paul Schnierer,Aleks Sierz

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The 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

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Utgivningsdatum2011-10-17
Mått134 x 216 x 32 mm
Vikt670 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieGuides to Contemporary Drama
Antal sidor544
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781408122785

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INTRODUCTION1. TERRY JOHNSON (Stephen Lacey - Cardiff, UK)2. SARAH DANIELS (Nicole Boireau - Metz, France)3. MARTIN CRIMP (Martin Middeke - Augsburg, Germany)4. JIM CARTWRIGHT (Anette Pankratz - Bochum, Germany)5. KEVIN ELYOT (Christina Wald - Augsburg, Germany)6. APRIL DE ANGELIS (Rebecca D'Monte - Bristol, UK)7. WINSOME PINNOCK (Elizabeth Sakellaridou - Thessaloniki, Greece)8. JONATHAN HARVEY (Peter Paul Schnierer - Heidelberg, Germany)9. PHILIP RIDLEY (Dan Rebellato - Royal Holloway, UK)10. DAVID GREIG (Janelle Reinelt - Warwick, UK)11. ANTHONY NEILSON (John Bull - Reading, UK)12. JOE PENHALL (Margarete Rubik - Vienna, Austria)13. SARAH KANE (Ken Urban - Harvard, USA)14. DAVID ELDRIDGE (Graham Saunders - Reading, UK)15. MARK RAVENHILL (Caridad Svich - New York, USA)16. JEZ BUTTERWORTH (Aleks Sierz - London, UK)17. DAVID HARROWER (Clare Wallace - Prague, Czech Republic)18. TANIKA GUPTA(Gabriele Griffin - York, UK)19. SHELAGH STEPHENSON (Peter Billingham - Portsmouth, UK)20. ROY WILLIAMS (Deidre Osborne - Goldsmiths, UK)21. GREGORY BURKE (David Pattie - Chester, UK)22. SIMON STEPHENS (Christopher Innes - Toronto, Canada)23. RICHARD BEAN (Eckart Voigts-Virchow - Siegen, Germany)24. debbie tucker green (Elaine Aston - Lancaster, UK)25. KWAME KWEI-ARMAH (Lynette Goddard - Royal Holloway, UK)CONCLUSION

This book offers a rigorous, but accessible way of rectifying that lack [of young people's knowledge of the oeuvre and philosophy of British playwrights]. The introduction offers as good a succint overview of theatrical developments and new writing in the 1980s, 90s and 2000s as I've read anywhere...And any book which includes language such as "revelling in staccato Mametian rhythms and Pinteresque menace" gets my vote for verbal imaginativeness and refusal to dumb down.