The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy /
The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy is a detailed study of the idea of the tragic in the political plays of David Hare, Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane, and Jez Butterworth.
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
2013.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- David Hare: the work of mourning, or, the agony and the ecstasy of the bourgeoisie
- Howard Barker: will and desire
- from the tragedy of socialism to the ecstasy of the unconscious
- Edward Bond: tragedy and postmodernity, or, the Promethean impulse
- Caryl Churchill: the Dionysian Möbius strip
- New English tragedians: the tragedy of the tragic.