Class Culture And Tragedy In The Plays Of Jez Butterworth

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Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth

Author : Sean McEvoy
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303062711X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth written by Sean McEvoy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jez Butterworth is undoubtedly one of the most popular and commercially successful playwrights to have emerged in Britain in the early twenty-first century. This book, only the second so far to have been written on him, argues that the power of his most acclaimed work comes from a reinvigoration of traditional forms of tragedy expressed in a theatricalized working-class language. Butterworth’s most developed tragedies invoke myth and legend as a figurative resistance to the flat and crushing instrumentalism of contemporary British political and economic culture. In doing so they summon older, resonant narratives which are both popular and high-cultural in order to address present cultural crises in a language and in a form which possess wide appeal. Tracing the development of Butterworth’s work chronologically from Mojo (1995) to The Ferryman (2017), each chapter offers detailed critical readings of a single play, exploring how myth and legend become significant in a variety of ways to Butterworth’s presentation of cultural and personal crisis.

Shakespeare, Education and Pedagogy

Author : Pamela Bickley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000856380
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, Education and Pedagogy written by Pamela Bickley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume captures the diverse ways in which Shakespeare interacts with educational theory and practice. It explores the depiction of learning and education in the plays, the role of Shakespeare as pedagogue, and ways in which the teaching of Shakespeare can facilitate discussion of some of the urgent questions of modern times. The book offers a wide range of perspectives – historical, theoretical, theatrical. The Renaissance humanist learning underpinning Shakespeare’s own work is explored in essays that consider how the complexity of Shakespeare’s drama challenges early-modern pedagogical orthodoxies. From close analysis of individual, solitary reflection on Shakespeare’s writing, the book moves outward to engage with contemporary social issues around inclusivity, society, and the planet, demonstrating the many educational contexts in which Shakespeare is currently appropriated. Engaging with current questions of the value of literary study, the book testifies to the potentialities of an empowering Shakespearean pedagogy. Bringing together voices from a variety of institutions and from a wide range of educational perspectives, this volume will be essential reading for academics, researchers and post-graduate students of Shakespeare, literature in education, pedagogy and literary theory.

English Theatre and Social Abjection

Author : Nadine Holdsworth
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 1137597771
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book English Theatre and Social Abjection written by Nadine Holdsworth and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on contemporary English theatre, this book asks a series of questions: How has theatre contributed to understandings of the North-South divide? What have theatrical treatments of riots offered to wider debates about their causes and consequences? Has theatre been able to intervene in the social unease around Gypsy and Traveller communities? How has theatre challenged white privilege and the persistent denigration of black citizens? In approaching these questions, this book argues that the nation is blighted by a number of internal rifts that pit people against each other in ways that cast particular groups as threats to the nation, as unruly or demeaned citizens – as ‘social abjects’. It interrogates how those divisions are generated and circulated in public discourse and how theatre offers up counter-hegemonic and resistant practices that question and challenge negative stigmatization, but also how theatre can contribute to the recirculation of problematic cultural imaginaries.

Shakespeare: The Basics

Author : Sean McEvoy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134614772
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare: The Basics written by Sean McEvoy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed squarely at the student new to Shakespeare, this volume provides a through introduction to the plays, based on the exciting new approaches shaping the field of Shakespeare studies. The author offers a refreshingly clear guide to Shakespeare's language; the plays as performance texts; the cultural and political contexts of the plays; early modern theatre practice; new understandings of the major genres.

Twenty-First Century Drama

Author : Siân Adiseshiah
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137484039
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Twenty-First Century Drama written by Siân Adiseshiah and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within this landmark collection, original voices from the field of drama provide rich analysis of a selection of the most exciting and remarkable plays and productions of the twenty-first century. But what makes the drama of the new millenium so distinctive? Which events, themes, shifts, and paradigms are marking its stages? Kaleidoscopic in scope, Twenty-First Century Drama: What Happens Now creates a broad, rigorously critical framework for approaching the drama of this period, including its forms, playwrights, companies, institutions, collaborative projects, and directors. The collection has a deliberately British bent, examining established playwrights – such as Churchill, Brenton, and Hare – alongside a new generation of writers – including Stephens, Prebble, Kirkwood, Bartlett, and Kelly. Simultaneously international in scope, it engages with significant new work from the US, Japan, India, Australia, and the Netherlands, to reflect a twenty-first century context that is fundamentally globalized. The volume’s central themes – the financial crisis, austerity, climate change, new forms of human being, migration, class, race and gender, cultural politics and issues of nationhood – are mediated through fresh, cutting-edge perspectives.

Mojo

Author : Jez Butterworth
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822216612
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Mojo written by Jez Butterworth and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Silver Johnny is the new singing sensation, straight out of a low-life Soho clubland bar in 1958. His success could be the big break for two dead-end workers in the bar, if they play their cards right and trust the owner of the place to

The Winterling

Author : Jez Butterworth
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9781854599261
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Winterling written by Jez Butterworth and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most dazzling Royal Court debut in years" -Time Out London

The Revlon Girl

Author : Neil Anthony Docking
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780573115226
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book The Revlon Girl written by Neil Anthony Docking and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set eight months following Aberfan Disaster of 1966 (in which 144 people were killed; 116 of them children) The Revlon Girl tells the real life story of a group of bereaved mothers who met every week above a local hotel to talk, cry and even laugh without feeling guilty. At one of their meetings, the women looked at each other and admitted how much they felt they'd let themselves go. So afraid that people would think them frivolous, they secretly arranged for a representative from Revlon to come and give them a talk on beauty tips.

Duncan Macmillan: Plays One

Author : Duncan Macmillan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783193387
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Duncan Macmillan: Plays One written by Duncan Macmillan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection from critically acclaimed playwright Duncan Macmillan, containing the plays Monster, Lungs, 2071, Every Brilliant Thing and People, Places and Things.

Blue/Orange

Author : Joe Penhall
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408140918
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Blue/Orange written by Joe Penhall and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expertly annotated edition of Joe Penhall's compelling drama: a dark, exhilarating tale of race, madness and power in the midst of a struggling National Health Service.

Homebody/Kabul

Author : Tony Kushner
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458781380
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Homebody/Kabul written by Tony Kushner and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul is the most remarkable play in a decade...without a doubt the most important of our time.''--John Heilpern, New York Observer In Homebody/Kabul, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America, has turned his penetrating gaze to the arena of global politics to create this suspenseful portrait of a dangerous collision between cultures. Written before 9/11, this play premiered in New York in December 2001 and has had subsequent highly successful productions in London, Providence, Seattle, Chicago and Los Angeles. This version incorporates all the playwright's changes and is now the definitive version of the text.

The Theatre of Harold Pinter

Author : Mark Taylor-Batty
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408175312
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Harold Pinter written by Mark Taylor-Batty and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theatre of Harold Pinter offers a unique assesment of one of Britain's most influential dramatists, combining a chronological survey of Pinter's entire work for the stage with a series of incisive critical essays from leading scholars.

English Revenge Drama

Author : Linda Woodbridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139493558
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book English Revenge Drama written by Linda Woodbridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vengeance permeates English Renaissance drama - for example, it crops up in all but two of Shakespeare's plays. This book explores why a supposedly forgiving Christian culture should have relished such bloodthirsty, vengeful plays. A clue lies in the plays' passion for fairness, a preoccupation suggesting widespread resentment of systemic unfairness - legal, economic, political and social. Revengers' precise equivalents - the father of two beheaded sons obliges his enemy to eat her two sons' heads - are vigilante versions of Elizabethan law, where penalties suit the crimes: thieves' hands were cut off, scolds' tongues bridled. The revengers' language of 'paying' hints at the operation of revenge in the service of economic redress. Revenge makes contact with resistance theory, justifying overthrow of tyrants, and some revengers challenge the fundamental inequity of social class. Woodbridge demonstrates how, for all their sensationalism, their macabre comedy and outlandish gore, Renaissance revenge plays do some serious cultural work.

Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist

Author : Sean McEvoy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748629912
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist written by Sean McEvoy and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new guide to the English renaissance's most erudite and yet most street-wise dramatist strongly asserts the theatrical brilliance of his greatest plays in performance, then and now.The book integrates all of Jonson's major plays into the milieu of the turbulent years which produced them, and analyses the way each work examines the issues and challenges of those years: money, power, sex, crime, identity, gender, the theatre itself. It offers a lucid guide to the competing critical views of a playwright who is far more than the obverse of his friend and rival William Shakespeare, and it explains in detail how the undoubted power and energy of these plays in modern performance should be the touchstone of their quality to both critic and reader. The plays discussed include the early Comedies, the Roman Tragedies (Sejanus and Catiline), Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair and The Devil is an Ass.

Theatre Record

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Storied Ground

Author : Paul Readman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108424732
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Storied Ground written by Paul Readman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between landscape and identity is explored to reveal how Englishness encompasses the urban and rural, and the north and south.

The Fishermen

Author : Chigozie Obioma
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316338362
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Fishermen written by Chigozie Obioma and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A striking debut novel about an unforgettable childhood, by a Nigerian writer the New York Times has crowned "the heir to Chinua Achebe." Told by nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, THE FISHERMEN is the Cain and Abel-esque story of a childhood in Nigeria, in the small town of Akure. When their father has to travel to a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his absence to skip school and go fishing. At the forbidden nearby river, they meet a madman who persuades the oldest of the boys that he is destined to be killed by one of his siblings. What happens next is an almost mythic event whose impact-both tragic and redemptive-will transcend the lives and imaginations of the book's characters and readers. Dazzling and viscerally powerful, THE FISHERMEN is an essential novel about Africa, seen through the prism of one family's destiny.