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.

Bibliografiset tiedot
Päätekijä: Carney, Sean, 1970-
Aineistotyyppi: Licensed eBooks
Kieli:englanti
Julkaistu: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2013.
Linkit:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442663503
Sisällysluettelo:
  • 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.