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The book presents post-war British historical drama not only as a phenomenon within literature and theatre, but also as an alternative form of representing the past, not as much competing with historiography as complementing it. The author shows how some of the central concerns of late twentieth-century methodology of history were also crucial for the historical drama of that time by applying Hayden White’s classification of categories determining the shape of historical writing to the plays of Robert Bolt, David Hare, Howard Barker and Tom Stoppard. The plays discussed in the book offer not only different visions of past events, but also different visions of historiography itself.

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Contents: Methodology of history – Hayden White's Metahistory – Post-war British historical drama – Central and Eastern Europe in British drama – The work of Robert Bolt, David Hare, Howard Barker and Tom Stoppard.

Stage Histories: Post-War British Historical

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      Publisher: Peter Lang AG
      Publication Date: 07/10/2015
      ISBN13: 9783631663257, 978-3631663257
      ISBN10: 3631663250

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The book presents post-war British historical drama not only as a phenomenon within literature and theatre, but also as an alternative form of representing the past, not as much competing with historiography as complementing it. The author shows how some of the central concerns of late twentieth-century methodology of history were also crucial for the historical drama of that time by applying Hayden White’s classification of categories determining the shape of historical writing to the plays of Robert Bolt, David Hare, Howard Barker and Tom Stoppard. The plays discussed in the book offer not only different visions of past events, but also different visions of historiography itself.

      Table of Contents
      Contents: Methodology of history – Hayden White's Metahistory – Post-war British historical drama – Central and Eastern Europe in British drama – The work of Robert Bolt, David Hare, Howard Barker and Tom Stoppard.

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