{"product_id":"professions-in-contemporary-drama-9781841500478","title":"Professions in Contemporary Drama","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNumerous plays have professionals as major characters, but academia has ignored them to a large extent.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMyths 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.","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042918564183,"sku":"9781841500478","price":27.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781841500478.jpg?v=1750956216","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/professions-in-contemporary-drama-9781841500478","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}