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This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama 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.
  • An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama.
  • Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism.
  • Topics 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.

A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880 - 2005

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 19/02/2010
    ISBN13: 9781444332049, 978-1444332049
    ISBN10: 144433204X

    Number of Pages: 608

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

    Description

    This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama 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.
    • An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama.
    • Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism.
    • Topics 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.

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