Description
Book SynopsisNumerous plays have professionals as major characters, but academia has ignored them to a large extent.
The Professions in Contemporary British Drama fills this extraordinary gap with a series of nine papers discussing the educational professions (Bennett, Mangan), the medical profession (Shields, Buse, ), priests (Kurdi), archaeologists (Forsyth) and artists (Di Benedetto, Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Edwards).
The book is of relevance to theatre academics and students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It is based on a conference organised in conjunction with the Centre for English Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, 6 March 1998.
Table of ContentsMyths and merchants, Ioan Williams; bouncer, teacher, doctor -the gentrification of Godber? John Bennett; "Look to the Moat in Your Own Eye" - criticising the critic in the theatre of Tom Stoppard, Douglas Wood; theatricality and madness - minding the mind-doctors, Tim Shields; carry on Welfare State - Orton, Nichols, and the National Health, Peter Buse; staging textual seropositivity in contemporary British theatre, Marcia Blumberg; the depiction of the artist in David Storey's life class - the play as a visual art, Stephen DiBenedetto; self-referral in drama and society, Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe; Wittgenstein and morality - the playwright's purpose, Dic Edwards.
