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Dark Attractions: Plays and Playwrights

Autor Brian Woolland
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 sep 2004
A major study of the work of one of Britain's best-known dramatists



Peter Barnes was one of the UK's most significant, prolific and enduring playwrights. This book offers a major critical appraisal of the canon of Barnes' work, including a detailed study of his best-known plays, The Ruling Class, Bewitched, Laughter!, Red Noses, and Dreaming, as well as a selection of his television and radio plays which illuminate his thematic concerns, and offer key insights into his dramatic methods.

Through this examination, Brian Woolland shows that many of Barnes' plays have remarkable contemporary relevance, and are formally far more innovative than has hitherto been recognised. Woolland analyses the ways in which Barnes uses and subverts theatrical traditions, and relates his work to relevant critical contexts: theatrical, critical and socio-political. Deservedly, Barnes' use of comedy is given special attention.

It is a sad truth that Barnes' great talents have not always been acknowledged by the theatrical establishment. In this exciting study, Barnes finally gets the recognition he deserves, as one of the most original, daring and exuberant dramatists of his generation.



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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780413774422
ISBN-10: 0413774422
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 16 B&W photographs
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Plays and Playwrights

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Brian Woolland is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at the University of Reading. His research interests are in Renaissance Theatre in performance, modern European theatre, and theater in educati on. He also works as a playwright (whose plays have been published and performed professionally), an d as a theatre director.

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This book offers a major critical appraisal of playwright Peter Barnes. It argues that many of his plays have remarkable contemporary relevance, and are formally far more innovative than has hitherto been recognised.