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British Drama of the 90s

Author : Irina Giertz
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656851263
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book British Drama of the 90s written by Irina Giertz and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exam Revision from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, University of Cologne (Institut für Englische Philologie), course: British Drama of the 90s, language: English, abstract: The most frequently used characteristics of in-yer-face theatre are sensation, shock, confrontation, taboo breaking, disturbing, provocative, attacking. It is a theatre of sensation, both actors and spectators are kicked out of the orbit/domain of conventional reactions, touches nerves, provokes alarm. Often such dramas employ shock tactics, or is shocking because it is new in tone or structure, or because it is more experimental than what the audience is used to. It questions moral norms and affronts the dominating ideas of what can or should be shown onstage. It also works with more primitive feelings, smashing taboos, mentioning the forbidden, creating discomfort.

Sublime Drama

Author : Elzbieta Iwona Baraniecka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110309939
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Sublime Drama written by Elzbieta Iwona Baraniecka and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British drama of the 1990s is most commonly associated with the term in-yer-face theatre, which was coined by Aleks Sierz to describe the shocking and provocative work of emerging playwrights such as Mark Ravenhill or Sarah Kane. Taking a cue from Sierz’s own suggestion that what still remains to be researched more thoroughly in this field is the particular relationship between the stage and the audience, this monograph undertakes precisely that task. Rather than use the term offered by Sierz, however, the study proposes a different concept to account for the dynamics of communication within the particular theatre of the 1990s, namely the aesthetic category of the sublime. Coupled with elements of Reader Response Theory, the sublime proves to be a more fruitful term, as it provides more precise tools for the analysis of the audience’s aesthetic response than does in-yer-face theatre. With the help of four representative plays by four key playwrights of that time, Closer by Patrick Marber, Normal by Anthony Neilson, Faust is Dead by Mark Ravenhill and 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane, the book details the consecutive stages in the process of the plays’ reception that the members of the audience go through while forming their aesthetic response to them. Looking through the prism of the sublime, the study not only offers a detailed analysis of each play but also suggests an entirely new approach to British drama of the 1990s.

British Drama of the 1990s

Author : Bernhard Reitz
Publisher : Universitatsverlag Winter
ISBN 13 : 9783825313753
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book British Drama of the 1990s written by Bernhard Reitz and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: - Klaus-Peter Muller: Political Plays in England in the 1990s. - Mark Berninger: Variations of a Genre. The British History Play in the Nineties. - Mary Luckhurst: An Embarrassment of Riches. Women Dramatists in the 1990s Britain. - Heiko Stahl: 'There ain't no black in the Union Jack' vs 'England is de place for me'. Black Women Playwrights in Britain in the 1990s. - Christopher Innes: Science on the Stage. - Aleks Sierz: In-Yer-Face Theatre. Mark Ravenhill and 1990s Drama. Graham Saunders: The Apocalyptic Theatre of Sarah Kane. - Michael Raab: 'Post-feminist masculinity and all that shit'. Patrick Marber's Closer in London and Munich.- Raimund Borgmeier: 'Convergences of different threads'. Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love (1997). Bernhard Reitz: "just wouldn't want to be at the other end of his anger". Harold Pinter's political Plays of the Nienties. - Heiner Zimmermann: Howard Barker in the Nineties.

Modern British Playwriting

Author : Aleks Sierz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781408177914
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (779 download)

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Download or read book Modern British Playwriting written by Aleks Sierz and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a detailed study by four scholars of the work of four of the major playwrights who emerged and had a significant impact on British theatre: Sarah Kane, Anthony Neilson, Mark Ravenhill, and Philip Ridley.

Modern British Playwriting: The 1990s

Author : Aleks Sierz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408129280
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Modern British Playwriting: The 1990s written by Aleks Sierz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British theatre of the 1990s witnessed an explosion of new talent and presented a new sensibility that sent shockwaves through audiences and critics. What produced this change, the context from which the work emerged, the main playwrights and plays, and the influence they had on later work are freshly evaluated in this important new study in Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series. The 1990s volume provides a detailed study by four scholars of the work of four of the major playwrights who emerged and had a significant impact on British theatre: Sarah Kane (by Catherine Rees), Anthony Neilson (Patricia Reid), Mark Ravenhill (Graham Saunders) and Philip Ridley (Aleks Sierz). Essential for students of Theatre Studies, the series of six decadal volumes provides a critical survey and study of the theatre produced from the 1950s to 2009. Each volume features a critical analysis of the work of four key playwrights besides other theatre work, together with an extensive commentary on the period. Readers will understand the works in their contexts and be presented with fresh research material and a reassessment from the perspective of the twenty-first century. This is an authoritative and stimulating reassessment of British playwriting in the 1990s.

Cool Britannia?

Author : Rebecca D'Monte
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403988126
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Cool Britannia? written by Rebecca D'Monte and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cool Britannia? is a readable introduction to the variety of evolving and often contradictory styles of political drama that emerged in the 1990s. Drawing on both new research and existing studies, established playwrights and younger writers, it creates a broad critical framework for approaching the drama of this period. It explores a wide variety of key issues, including: the impact of capitalism and globalization; cultural politics and issues of nationhood; questions and constructions of race and gender.

In-Yer-Face Theatre

Author : Aleks Sierz
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571318495
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Book Synopsis In-Yer-Face Theatre by : Aleks Sierz

Download or read book In-Yer-Face Theatre written by Aleks Sierz and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most controversial and newsworthy plays of British theatre are a rash of rude, vicious and provocative pieces by a brat pack of twentysomethings whose debuts startled critics and audiences with their heady mix of sex, violence and street-poetry. In-Yer-Face Theatre is the first book to study this exciting outburst of creative self-expression by what in other contexts has been called Generation X, or Thatcher's Children, the 'yoof' who grew up during the last Conservative Government. The book argues that, for example, Trainspotting, Blasted, Mojo and Shopping and F**king are much more than a collection of shock tactics - taken together, they represent a consistent critique of modern life, one which focuses on the problem of violence, the crisis of masculinity and the futility of consumerism. The book contains extensive interviews with playwrights, including Sarah Kane ( Blasted), Mark Ravenhill (Shopping and F**king), Philip Ridley (The Pitchfork Disney), Patrick Marber (Closer) and Martin McDonagh (The Beauty Queen of Leenane).

British Theatre of the 1990s

Author : M. Aragay
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230210732
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book British Theatre of the 1990s written by M. Aragay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-23 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting book uniquely combines interviews with scholars and practitioners in theatre studies to look at what most people feel is a pivotal moment of British theatre - the 1990s. With a particular focus on 'in-yer-face theatre', this volume will be essential reading for all students and scholars of contemporary British theatre.

Modern British Drama

Author : C. D. Innes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book Modern British Drama written by C. D. Innes and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tears of laughter

Author : Nigel Mather
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526141795
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Tears of laughter written by Nigel Mather and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tears of laughter' examines the interactions of comedy and drama in three vital thematic strands of British cinema during the 1990s: comedies exploring issues of class, culture and community in British society, 'ethnic' comedy-dramas engaging with complex issues of identity and allegiance in modern Britain, and romantic comedies featuring characters searching (somewhat desperately or frantically) for a suitable and desirable long-term or short-term partner. Films to be discussed in detail include 'Brassed Off' (1996), 'The Full Monty' (1997), 'East is East' (1999), 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' (1994), 'Notting Hill' (1999) and a post-1990s romantic comedy, 'Love Actually' (2003). The study discusses these specific films and a range of other 1990s British comedy-drama films within the context of community-orientated Ealing comedy classics, contentious situation comedies treating race relations as both a laughing matter and a site of conflict ('Till Death Us Do Part' and 'Love Thy Neighbour'), and romantic comedies set and produced in Britain. It is aimed at film studies academics, students and film enthusiasts.

Adaptations, Versions and Perversions in Modern British Drama

Author : Ignacio Ramos Gay
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443868698
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Adaptations, Versions and Perversions in Modern British Drama written by Ignacio Ramos Gay and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to explore which plays were deemed ‘suitable’ to be reworked for foreign or local stages; what transformations – linguistic, semiotic, theatrical – were undertaken so as to accommodate international audiences; how national literary traditions are forged, altered, and diluted by means of transnational adapting techniques; and, finally, to what extent the categorical boundaries between original plays and adaptations may be blurred on the account of such adjusting textual strategies. It brings together ten articles that scrutinise the linguistic, social, political and theatrical complexities inherent in the intercultural transference of plays. The approaches presented by the different contributors investigate modern British theatre as an instance of diachronic and synchronic transnational adaptations based upon a myriad of influences originating in, and projected upon, other national dramatic traditions. These traditions, rooted in relatively distant geographies and epochs, are traced so as to illustrate the split between the state-imposed identity and personal, subjective identity caused by cultural negotiations of the self in an age of globalism. International frontiers are thus pointed at in order to claim the need to be transcended in the process of cultural re-appropriation associated with theatre performance for international audiences.

Modern Drama: Plays of the '80s and '90s

Author :
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Modern Drama: Plays of the '80s and '90s written by and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2001 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology bringing together some of the most importnat and controvesial plays from the last twenty years.

Cult British TV Comedy

Author : Leon Hunt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781705865
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Cult British TV Comedy written by Leon Hunt and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first sustained critical analysis of cult British TV comedy from 1990 to the present day. The book examines 'post-alternative' comedy as both 'cult' and 'quality' TV, aimed mostly at niche audiences and often possessing a subcultural aura. It includes case studies of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer and the sitcom writer Graham Linehan.

Modern British Drama, 1890-1990

Author : C. D. Innes
Publisher : Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521315555
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Modern British Drama, 1890-1990 written by C. D. Innes and published by Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first one-volume analysis of British drama, from 1890–1990, covering the most dynamic and exciting period in its history since Shakespeare. Starting with George Bernard Shaw, Christopher Innes traces the evolution of modernism from the close of the nineteenth century right up to the present. The unparalleled breadth of this critical study shows patterns of development in naturalistic social drama, comedy, poetic drama, and feminist theatre. This provides a coherent theoretical frame for understanding individual writers and their work. The book gives detailed discussions of all the major dramatists; analysis of over 200 plays; information on the social and political context; facts about first productions and critical reception; a comprehensive chronology, and illustrations from seminal productions. The wide focus, unique coverage, and wealth of detail make this book an invaluable guide for students, theatre-goers, and theatre historians alike.

Violence in Contemporary British Drama - Sarah Kane's Play "Cleansed"

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Author : Lea Jasmin Gutscher
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640222725
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Violence in Contemporary British Drama - Sarah Kane's Play "Cleansed" written by Lea Jasmin Gutscher and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Free University of Berlin (Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften Institut f r Englische Philologie), course: Abschlussarbeit Englische Literaturwissenschaft, 78 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: When Sarah Kane, born in 1971 in Essex, England, committed suicide at the age of 28 in February 1999, she left five plays and the script for a ten minute screenplay. Kane had dedicated much of her short life to the understanding, exploration and (re)invention of drama. While still at school she started writing and acting, activities which she continued at university, where she further experimented with theatre and where she also took up directing. After leaving the University of Bristol with a First Class Honours Degree in drama studies, she enrolled at Birmingham University and crowned her education with a Master's degree in playwriting. After several minor dramatic experiments, staged as student productions in unofficial venues, her first full-length play, Blasted, premi red at the Royal Court Theatre in London in January 1995. The play immediately became notorious for its depiction of all kinds of physical and verbal violence for which it was fiercely attacked by both public opinion and reviewers. The fact that the plays which followed contained many unspeakable scenes of sheer cruelty, earned her the reputation as the enfant terrible of contemporary British drama. During her brief career Sarah Kane created a body of work that brought her both success and notoriety. Her controversial theatre divided critics and audiences from the beginning. While some attacked her persistently, others recognised her as a new voice, and after she explored and discovered different linguistic and theatrical devices, critical approval followed.

Brecht and Post-1990s British Drama

Author : Anja Hartl
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 : 1350201847
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Brecht and Post-1990s British Drama written by Anja Hartl and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can theatre change the world? If so, how can it productively connect with social reality and foster spectatorial critique and engagement? This book examines the forms and functions of political drama in what has been described as a post-Marxist, post-ideological, even post-political moment. It argues that Bertolt Brecht's concept of dialectical theatre represents a privileged theoretical and dramaturgical method on the contemporary British stage as well as a valuable lens for understanding 21st-century theatre in Britain. Establishing a creative philosophical dialogue between Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno and Jacques Rancière, the study analyses seminal works by five influential contemporary playwrights, ranging from Mark Ravenhill's 'in-yer-face' plays to Caryl Churchill's 21st century theatrical experiments. Engaging critically with Brecht's theatrical legacy, these plays create a politically progressive form of drama which emphasises notions of negativity, ambivalence and conflict as a prerequisite for spectatorial engagement and emancipation. This book adopts an interdisciplinary and intercultural theoretical approach, reuniting English and German perspectives and innovatively weaving together a variety of theoretical strands to offer fresh insights on Brecht's legacy, on British theatre history and on the selected plays.

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : LA CASE Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by LA CASE Books. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes includes ‘"The Adventure of the Illustrious Client", "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier", "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone", "The Adventure of the Three Gables", "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire", "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs", "The Problem of Thor Bridge", "The Adventure of the Creeping Man", "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane", "The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger", "The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" & "The Adventure of the Retired Colourman". Rip-roaring and spine-chilling, these stories have been intriguing readers for generations.