{"product_id":"a-companion-to-modern-british-and-irish-drama-1880-2005-9781405122283","title":"A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis wide-ranging \u003ci\u003eCompanion to Modern British and Irish Drama\u003c\/i\u003e offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEngages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTopics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Offers strong and accessible scholarship on major playwrights and aspects of theatrical history and historiography, and usefully reflects on its own practices and agendas, and will be extremely useful to students and theatre scholars.\" \u003ci\u003eCercles\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama 1880-2005\u003c\/i\u003e is a much needed intervention in the field, with its substantial coverage of Irish drama and significant essays on the work of women playwrights, as well as solid coverage of the usual suspects. It is profitably innovative in terms of both structure and content. Many volumes with such a coverage remit fail to ever go much beyond the standard canonical playwrights and texts...a ‘must buy’ for all University libraries...this is a volume which will have currency for years to come.\" \u003ci\u003eNew Theatre Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Luckhurst argues for a reassessment of 'Englishness,' and, accordingly, this companion emphasizes postcolonial and feminist agendas and questions the dominance of urban locales and certain theatrical institutions...combined, the essays provide a necessary reassessment of British and Irish drama.\" \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“There is so much valuable material in the book that it is sure to be frequently read and consulted.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDonald Hawes, Reference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements xi  \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMary Luckhurst\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Contexts\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Domestic and Imperial Politics in Britain and Ireland: The Testimony of Irish Theatre 7\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eVictor Merriman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Reinventing England 22\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDeclan Kiberd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Ibsen in the English Theatre in the Fin de Siecle 35\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKatherine Newey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 New Woman Drama 48\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSally Ledger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Mapping New Ground, 1900–1939\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e61\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Shaw among the Artists 63\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJan McDonald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Granville Barker and the Court Dramatists 75\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCary M. Mazer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Gregory, Yeats and Ireland’s Abbey Theatre 87\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMary Trotter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Suffrage Theatre: Community Activism and Political Commitment 99\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan Carlson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Unlocking Synge Today 110\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher Murray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Sean O'Casey's Powerful Fireworks 125\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJean Chothia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Auden and Eliot: Theatres of the Thirties 138\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobin Grove\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III England, Class and Empire, 1939–1990\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e151\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Empire and Class in the Theatre of John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy 153\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMary Brewer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 When Was the Golden Age? Narratives of Loss and Decline: John Osborne, Arnold Wesker and Rodney Ackland 164\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStephen Lacey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 A Commercial Success: Women Playwrights in the 1950s 175\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan Bennett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Home Thoughts from Abroad: Mustapha Matura 188\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eD. Keith Peacock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 The Remains of the British Empire: The Plays of Winsome Pinnock 198\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGabriele Griffin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Comedy\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e211\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Wilde's Comedies 213\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard Allen Cave\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Always Acting: Noel Coward and the Performing Self 225\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrances Gray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Beckett's Divine Comedy 237\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKatharine Worth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Form and Ethics in the Comedies of Brendan Behan 247\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Brannigan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Joe Orton: Anger, Artifice and Absurdity 258\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Higgins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Alan Ayckbourn: Experiments in Comedy 269\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlexander Leggatt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 'They Both Add up to Me': The Logic of Tom Stoppard's Dialogic Comedy 279\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul Delaney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Stewart Parker's Comedy of Terrors 289\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnthony Roche\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V War and Terror\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e299\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 AWounded Stage: Drama and World War I 301\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMary Luckhurst\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Staging 'the Holocaust' in England 316\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Lennard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Troubling Perspectives: Northern Ireland, the 'Troubles' and Drama 329\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHelen Lojek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 On War: Charles Wood's Military Conscience 341\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDawn Fowler and John Lennard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Torture in the Plays of Harold Pinter 358\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMary Luckhurst\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Sarah Kane: From Terror to Trauma 371\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSteve Waters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Theatre since 1968\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e383\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Theatre since 1968 385\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Pattie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Lesbian and Gay Theatre: All Queer on the West End Front 398\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Deeney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Edward Bond: Maker of Myths 409\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Patterson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 John McGrath and Popular Political Theatre 419\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaria DiCenzo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 David Hare and Political Playwriting: Between the Third Way and the Permanent Way 429\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Deeney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Left in Front: David Edgar's Political Theatre 441\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Bull\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 Liz Lochhead: Writer and Re-Writer: Stories, Ancient and Modern 454\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJan McDonald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 'Spirits that Have Become Mean and Broken': Tom Murphy and the 'Famine' of Modern Ireland 466\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eShaun Richards\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Caryl Churchill: Feeling Global 476\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElin Diamond\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 Howard Barker and the Theatre of Catastrophe 488\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChris Megson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 Reading History in the Plays of Brian Friel 499\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLionel Pilkington\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 Marina Carr: Violence and Destruction: Language, Space and Landscape 509\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCathy Leeney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43 Scrubbing up Nice? Tony Harrison's Stagings of the Past 519\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard Rowland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44 The Question of Multiculturalism: The Plays of Roy Williams 530\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eD. Keith Peacock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45 Ed Thomas: Jazz Pictures in the Gaps of Language 541\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Ian Rabey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46 Theatre and Technology 551\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndy Lavender\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 563\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039412748631,"sku":"9781405122283","price":135.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405122283.jpg?v=1750943617","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-companion-to-modern-british-and-irish-drama-1880-2005-9781405122283","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}