Drama + Theory: Critical Approaches to Modern British Drama

Drama + Theory: Critical Approaches to Modern British Drama

by PeterBuse (Author)

Synopsis

Energetically places modern British drama and contemporary critical and cultural theory in dialogue, demonstrating how theory allows fresh insights into familiar plays. Each chapter pairs a well-known play from the post-war period with a classic theory text, the theoretical text is not simply applied to the dramatic one: instead, the play and the theoretical text reflect on each other in a mutual illumination. Examples include: So Look Back in Anger is read by and reads Lacan's Signification of the Phallus Pinter's The Homecoming is made uncanny with Freud Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead finds affinities with Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good agrees and disagrees with Edward Said Sarah Kane's Blasted thinks through trauma with Shoshana Felman. In each case, the theoretical position is explained lucidly and economically. The result is a series of new interpretations not only of the plays, but of the theoretical texts, which take on new relevance when linked with modern British drama. The first textbook of its kind, linking contemporary drama with critical and cultural theory.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 11 Oct 2001

ISBN 10: 0719057221
ISBN 13: 9780719057229

Author Bio
Peter Buse is Lecturer in English and a member of the European Studies Research Institute at the University of Salford