{"product_id":"a-history-of-modern-drama-volume-ii-9781405157582","title":"A History of Modern Drama Volume II","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA History of Modern Drama\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eVolume II\u003c\/i\u003e explores a remarkable breadth of topics and analytical approaches to the dramatic works, authors, and transitional events and movements that shaped world drama from 1960 through to the dawn of the new millennium.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures detailed analyses of plays and playwrights, examining the influence of a wide range of writers, from mainstream icons such as Harold Pinter and Edward Albee, to more unorthodox works by Peter Weiss and Sarah Kane\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides global coverage of both English and non-English dramas  including works from Africa and Asia to the Middle East\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders the influence of art, music, literature, architecture, society, politics, culture, and philosophy on the formation of postmodern dramatic literature\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCombines wide-ranging topics with original theories, international perspective, and philosophical and cultural context\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eCompletes a comprehensive two-part work examining modern w\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Krasner’s \u003ci\u003eA History of Modern Drama, Volume II: 1960–2000\u003c\/i\u003e offers… a structural and technique-based approach to differentiating dramatic eras. In his sequel to \u003ci\u003eA History of Modern Drama, Volume I\u003c\/i\u003e, Krasner shifts focus from dividing drama by time periods (i.e., “modern” and “contemporary”) to categorizing dramatic eras according to their use of different formal techniques (i.e., “modern” and “postmodern”). This is an important distinction, as book-length studies on postmodern drama are few. Krasner’s Volume II makes this scholarly move feel like a logical step and a natural conclusion. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book will reinvigorate the study of postmodernism and drama. This is a worthy and important volume that should be read by anyone who teaches theatre history and\/or modern and postmodern drama courses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Michael Y. Bennett, \u003ci\u003eModern Drama\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Introduction 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Strangers More than Ever: Modern Drama and Alternative Modernities 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: United Kingdom and Ireland 47\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Jewish Oedipus, Jewish Ethics: Harold Pinter and Postmodern Philosophy 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Tom Stoppard and the Limits of Empiricism 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Caryl Churchill, Monetarism, and the Feminist Dilemma 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 “Can’t Buy Me Love”: Socialism, Working Class Sensibilities, and Modern British Drama 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Between Past and Present: Brian Friel’s “Symbolic Middle Ground” 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: United States 205\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7 “Participate, I suppose”: Edward Albee and the Specter of Death 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8 “Ask a Criminal”: White Postmodern Manhood in David Mamet and Sam Shepard 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9 Modern Drama, Modern Feminism, and Postmodern Motherhood 254\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10 History, Reinvention, and Dialectics: African American Drama and August Wilson 279\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11 Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Postmodern Ethics in the Age of Reagan 301\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Western and Eastern Europe 319\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12 Post]War, Cold War, and Post]Cold War: Marxism, Post]Totalitarianism, and European Drama in the Postmodern Era 321\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13 Eastern Europe, Totalitarianism, and the Wooden Words 353\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Postcolonial Drama 387\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14 The Fragmentation of the Self in Postcolonial Drama 389\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 15 Africa: Wole Soyinka, Athol Fugard, and Christina Ama Ata Aidoo 401\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 16 Central and South America: Carlos Fuentes and Derek Walcott 417\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 17 Asia and the Middle East: Yukio Mishima, Gao Xingjian, Girish Karnad, Hanoch Levin, and SaaDallah Wannous 429\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 18 Canada: Ann]Marie MacDonald and Judith Thompson 449\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI: Nihilism at the Door 459\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 19 Crisis of Values and Loss of Center in the Plays of Martin McDonagh and Sarah Kane 461\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 20 Blasted, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, and Phaedra’s Love 477\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 21 Pushing More Boundaries: Children and Desire 493\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 500\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 567\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407891308887,"sku":"9781405157582","price":65.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405157582.jpg?v=1730500868","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-history-of-modern-drama-volume-ii-9781405157582","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}