{"product_id":"decadent-plays-18901930-9781350171831","title":"Decadent Plays 18901930","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoisoned cigars, seductive apparitions, minds and empires in the last of their decline and the most notorious kiss in dramatic history  decadent plays challenged the moral as much as the dramatic imagination of their own day, and continue to probe horizons of taste and the possibilities of stagecraft.   \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many writers reacted to urban modernity by embracing decadent themes and styles, and dramatists were no exception. Decadence offered these writers a framework for exploring nonconformist identities and beliefs that challenged behavioural norms as much as the desirability of modern progress. Decadent plays were at once behind the times in their celebration of antiquity, and forward-thinking in their staging of themes that have become all the more timely in the 21st century, including queerness, unconventional eroticism, and critiques of empire and industrial progress. Equally, the diversity of decadent drama cannot be pigeon-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements Introduction - Adam Alston and Jane Desmarais   \u003cb\u003eEmpire and the Ancient World\u003c\/b\u003e Oscar Wilde, \u003ci\u003eSalome\u003c\/i\u003e (1891) Michael Field,\u003ci\u003e The Race of Leaves \u003c\/i\u003e(1901) Lesya Ukrainka, \u003ci\u003eThe Orgy: A Dramatic Poem \u003c\/i\u003e(1913), trans. Vera Rich  \u003cb\u003eOblivion and the Occult\u003c\/b\u003e Rachilde, \u003ci\u003eMadame La Mort\u003c\/i\u003e (1891), trans. Kiki Gounaridou and Frazer Lively Remy de Gourmont, \u003ci\u003eLilith\u003c\/i\u003e (1892), trans. Dan Rebellato Jean Lorrain, \u003ci\u003eEnnoïa: A Triptych\u003c\/i\u003e(1906), trans. Jennifer Higgins Leonid Andreyev, \u003ci\u003eThe Black Maskers \u003c\/i\u003e(1908), trans. Clarence L. Meader \u0026amp; Fred Newton Scott   \u003cb\u003eEroticism and Idolatry\u003c\/b\u003e Gabriele D’Annunzio, L\u003ci\u003ea Gioconda\u003c\/i\u003e (1898), trans. Arthur Symons Maurice Maeterlinck, \u003ci\u003eArdiane and Barbe Bleue or, The Useless Deliverance\u003c\/i\u003e (1899), trans. Bernard Miall Izumi Kyoka, \u003ci\u003eKerria Japonica\u003c\/i\u003e (1923), trans. M. Cody Poulton Djuna Barnes, \u003ci\u003eThe Dove\u003c\/i\u003e (1923)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407517655383,"sku":"9781350171831","price":28.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350171831.jpg?v=1730499638","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/decadent-plays-18901930-9781350171831","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}