Cool Britannia? British Political Drama in the 1990s

by Graham Saunders (Editor), RebeccaD'Monte (Editor)

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2007
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Cool Britannia? draws on new research to create a critical framework for approaching the drama of this period. It examines the work of established playwrights as well as the generation of young writers who emerged in the mid-1990s and explores a wide variety of key issues including cultural politics and constructions of race and gender.

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Cool Britannia? draws on new research to create a critical framework for approaching the drama of this period. It examines the work of established playwrights as well as the generation of young writers who emerged in the mid-1990s and explores a wide variety of key issues including cultural politics and constructions of race and gender.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 07 Dec 2007
ISBN 10: 1403988137
ISBN 13: 9781403988133
Book Overview: 'This is an impressive collection by some of the best critics in the field. Each contribution is in dialogue with the subject matter and each other, providing salient observations about British 'Rough theatre' in an age of bodily mutilation...A superb reader for students studying the plays and playwrights of this volatile era.' - David Krasner, Yale University, USA 'This volume on British political drama in the 1990s is a welcome addition to the scholarship on the period' - Aoife Monks, Contemporary Theatre Review

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'This is an impressive collection by some of the best critics in the field. Each contribution is in dialogue with the subject matter and each other, providing salient observations about British 'Rough theatre' in an age of bodily mutilation...A superb reader for students studying the plays and playwrights of this volatile era.' - David Krasner, Yale University, USA 'This volume on British political drama in the 1990s is a welcome addition to the scholarship on the period' - Aoife Monks, Contemporary Theatre Review

Author Bio

REBECCA D'MONTE is Senior lecturer in Drama at the University of the West of England, UK. She is co-editor of Female Communities 1600-1800: Literary Visions and Cultural Realities

GRAHAM SAUNDERS is a lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Reading, UK. He is author of 'Love Me or Kill Me': Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes, and has published a number of articles on contemporary British and Irish drama for the journals Contemporary Theatre Review, New Theatre Quarterly, Journal of Beckett Studies and Theatre Research International