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The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights: Guides to Contemporary Drama

Editat de Prof. Martin Middeke, Dr. Peter Paul Schnierer, Aleks Sierz
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 oct 2011
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights who have risen to prominence since the 1980s. Written by an international team of scholars, it will be invaluable to anyone interested in, studying or teaching contemporary drama. Among the many playwrights whose work is examined are Sarah Daniels, Terry Johnson, Martin Crimp, Sarah Kane, Anthony Neilson, Mark Ravenhill, Simon Stephens, Debbie Tucker Green, Tanika Gupta and Richard Bean. Each essay features: A biographical sketch and introduction to the playwright A discussion of their most important plays An analysis of their stylistic and thematic traits, the critical reception and their place in the discourses of British theatre A bibliography of texts and critical material
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408122785
ISBN-10: 1408122782
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Guides to Contemporary Drama

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

In the UK alone there are 16,000 students of A level drama, while British Drama and playwrights feature on most theatre studies courses overseas as well

Notă biografică

Professor Martin Middeke is Chair of English Literature at the University of Augsburg and Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg. Professor Peter Paul Schnierer is Chair of English Literature at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Dr Aleks Sierz is the author of The Theatre of Martin Crimp and Rewriting the Nation.

Cuprins

INTRODUCTION1. TERRY JOHNSON (Stephen Lacey - Cardiff, UK)2. SARAH DANIELS (Nicole Boireau - Metz, France)3. MARTIN CRIMP (Martin Middeke - Augsburg, Germany)4. JIM CARTWRIGHT (Anette Pankratz - Bochum, Germany)5. KEVIN ELYOT (Christina Wald - Augsburg, Germany)6. APRIL DE ANGELIS (Rebecca D'Monte - Bristol, UK)7. WINSOME PINNOCK (Elizabeth Sakellaridou - Thessaloniki, Greece)8. JONATHAN HARVEY (Peter Paul Schnierer - Heidelberg, Germany)9. PHILIP RIDLEY (Dan Rebellato - Royal Holloway, UK)10. DAVID GREIG (Janelle Reinelt - Warwick, UK)11. ANTHONY NEILSON (John Bull - Reading, UK)12. JOE PENHALL (Margarete Rubik - Vienna, Austria)13. SARAH KANE (Ken Urban - Harvard, USA)14. DAVID ELDRIDGE (Graham Saunders - Reading, UK)15. MARK RAVENHILL (Caridad Svich - New York, USA)16. JEZ BUTTERWORTH (Aleks Sierz - London, UK)17. DAVID HARROWER (Clare Wallace - Prague, Czech Republic)18. TANIKA GUPTA(Gabriele Griffin - York, UK)19. SHELAGH STEPHENSON (Peter Billingham - Portsmouth, UK)20. ROY WILLIAMS (Deidre Osborne - Goldsmiths, UK)21. GREGORY BURKE (David Pattie - Chester, UK)22. SIMON STEPHENS (Christopher Innes - Toronto, Canada)23. RICHARD BEAN (Eckart Voigts-Virchow - Siegen, Germany)24. debbie tucker green (Elaine Aston - Lancaster, UK)25. KWAME KWEI-ARMAH (Lynette Goddard - Royal Holloway, UK)CONCLUSION

Recenzii

This book offers a rigorous, but accessible way of rectifying that lack [of young people's knowledge of the oeuvre and philosophy of British playwrights]. The introduction offers as good a succint overview of theatrical developments and new writing in the 1980s, 90s and 2000s as I've read anywhere...And any book which includes language such as "revelling in staccato Mametian rhythms and Pinteresque menace" gets my vote for verbal imaginativeness and refusal to dumb down.
This substantial volume really lives up to the promise of its title - it is indeed an extremely helpful 'guide' in the best sense of the word, offering both an overview of its subject and very specific information on individual playwrights and playtexts and proving useful to newcomers to the field and specialists alike.
This makes for a highly informative compendium of biographies and critiques, and a coherent and timely statement on the formidable and continuing strength of British playwriting.

Descriere

This is an authoritative single-volume guide to the work of twenty-five British playwrights from the 1980s to the present written by an international team of twenty-five eminent scholars. It is the perfect companion for students of Theatre Studies and English Literature.