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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Tác giả chính: Carney, Sean, 1970-
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2013.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442663503
Mục lục:
  • 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.