New Readings in British Drama

From the Post-War Period To the Contemporary Era

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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“New Readings in British Drama: From the Post-War Period to the Contemporary Era” offers new readings of British plays produced after the Second World War by underlining the fact that literary theories have never been stagnant and exhausted in the field of drama as part of literary studies. Scholarly editions focusing exclusively on contemporary drama and its critical readings are still a rarity, as contemporary literary scholars tend to neglect drama in favour of fiction. Therefore, our contributors have attempted to examine the works of Tom Stoppard, Caryl Churchill, Sarah Kane, Roy Williams, Mark Ravenhill, Thomas Eccleshare, Anders Lutsgarten and Jackie Kay from the perspectives of the major theories by emphasising how key theoretical approaches can help elucidate theatrical texts and their performances from a contemporary critical standpoint.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-12-23
Mått148 x 210 x 0 mm
Vikt275 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor152
FörlagPeter Lang AG
ISBN9783631860229

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Mesut Günenç holds a PhD in English literature and is currently teachingcourses on contemporary drama and theatre as an assistant professor at AydınAdnan Menderes University in Turkey. He has published several articles onPostdramatic theatre and contemporary British drama. He is the author of aTurkish book titled “David Hare’in Oyunlarında Post-Truth Söylem”. He hasreceived a research council scholarship to visit Loughborough University forpostdoctoral research. He is a founding member of Theatre and Drama Network(TDN) in Turkey.Enes Kavak is currently working as an assistant professor at Gaziantep Universityin Turkey. He holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Leedsin the United Kingdom. His doctoral research focuses on Edwardian women’spolitical theatre. He is the co-editor of an edited volume titled “English Studiesin the 21st Century”. His recent research focuses mostly on suffrage literature,women’s writings, contemporary British drama and theatre. He is a foundingmember of Theatre and Drama Network (TDN) in Turkey.

Introduction — Mehmet Akif Balkaya : The Unbearable Absence of Existence: The Post- Structuralist Condition in Tom Stoppard’s After Magritte — Gül Kurtuluş : Memory, Gender and Innovation in Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine: The Brechtian Legacy in the Postmodern Theatre — Mesut Günenç : Deciphering Postdramatic Tragedy in Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s Love — Enes Kavak and Gökçe Akarık : Nostalgia and Identity Crisis of Black British Characters in Roy Williams’s The No Boys Cricket Club — Mustafa Bal : Apocalypse In- Yer- Face: Mark Ravenhill’s Faust Is Dead — Özlem Karadağ : Becoming Human/ oid: A Posthumanist Critique of Thomas Eccleshare’s Instructions for Correct Assembly — Hakan Gültekin : Post- Neoliberalism, Free Market and Disillusionment: Anders Lustgarten’s If You Don’t Let Us Dream, We Won’t Let You Sleep — Pelin Doğan : “An International Crossroads of Female Pain.” Intersectional Feminism: Jackie Kay’s Chiaroscuro — Notes on Contributors .