A history of modern drama
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A history of modern drama
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-
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Vol. 2. 1960-2000
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
内容説明・目次
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v. 1 ISBN 9781405157575
内容説明
Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of the plays, dramatists, and movements that comprise modern world drama.
Contains detailed analysis of plays and playwrights, connecting themes and offering original interpretations
Includes coverage of non-English works and traditions to create a global view of modern drama
Considers the influence of modernism in art, music, literature, architecture, society, and politics on the formation of modern dramatic literature
Takes an interpretative and analytical approach to modern dramatic texts rather than focusing on production history
Includes coverage of the ways in which staging practices, design concepts, and acting styles informed the construction of the dramas
目次
Preface and Acknowledgements ix Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Part I: Trauma Drama 33
Chapter 2 The Price of Freedom 39
Chapter 3 Unhinged Subjectivity 80
Chapter 4 Aboulia 109
Part II: Modernist Beginnings 137
Chapter 5 Rising Symbolism 145
Chapter 6 Rising Expressionism 158
Part III: Realism 167
Chapter 7 Rural Realism 171
Chapter 8 Urban Realism 178
Chapter 9 Optimistic Passion 182
Chapter 10 The Campaign Against Earnestness 189
Part IV: Dissociated Sensibility 193
Chapter 11 Distorted Modernism 195
Chapter 12 Lyrical Modernism 203
Chapter 13 Sentimental Modernism 210
Part V: Avant Garde 215
Chapter 14 Eros and Thanatos 217
Chapter 15 Robots and Automatons 226
Chapter 16 Farce and Parody 229
Part VI: Epic Modernism 235
Chapter 17 Gaming the System 237
Part VII: The Divided Self of American Drama 259
Chapter 18 Illusions 265
Chapter 19 Delusions 275
Chapter 20 Dreams 281
Chapter 21 Gender 289
Chapter 22 Race 293
Part VIII: Hell Is Other People 301
Chapter 23 The Farce of Intimacy 307
Chapter 24 The Tragedy of Intimacy 315
Part IX: Modernist Improvising 325
Chapter 25 Beckett Impromptu 327
Part X: Conclusion 349
Notes 351
Index 389
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v. 2 ISBN 9781405157582
内容説明
A History of Modern Drama: Volume II 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.
Features 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
Provides global coverage of both English and non-English dramas - including works from Africa and Asia to the Middle East
Considers the influence of art, music, literature, architecture, society, politics, culture, and philosophy on the formation of postmodern dramatic literature
Combines wide-ranging topics with original theories, international perspective, and philosophical and cultural context
Completes a comprehensive two-part work examining modern world drama, and alongside A History of Modern Drama: Volume I, offers readers complete coverage of a full century in the evolution of global dramatic literature.
目次
Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Part I: Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Strangers More than Ever: Modern Drama and Alternative Modernities 3
Part II: United Kingdom and Ireland 47
Chapter 2 Jewish Oedipus, Jewish Ethics: Harold Pinter and Postmodern Philosophy 49
Chapter 3 Tom Stoppard and the Limits of Empiricism 92
Chapter 4 Caryl Churchill, Monetarism, and the Feminist Dilemma 119
Chapter 5 "Can't Buy Me Love": Socialism, Working Class Sensibilities, and Modern British Drama 139
Chapter 6 Between Past and Present: Brian Friel's "Symbolic Middle Ground" 186
Part III: United States 205
Chapter 7 "Participate, I suppose": Edward Albee and the Specter of Death 207
Chapter 8 "Ask a Criminal": White Postmodern Manhood in David Mamet and Sam Shepard 225
Chapter 9 Modern Drama, Modern Feminism, and Postmodern Motherhood 254
Chapter 10 History, Reinvention, and Dialectics: African American Drama and August Wilson 279
Chapter 11 Tony Kushner's Angels in America: Postmodern Ethics in the Age of Reagan 301
Part IV: Western and Eastern Europe 319
Chapter 12 Post ]War, Cold War, and Post ]Cold War: Marxism, Post ]Totalitarianism, and European Drama in the Postmodern Era 321
Chapter 13 Eastern Europe, Totalitarianism, and the Wooden Words 353
Part V: Postcolonial Drama 387
Chapter 14 The Fragmentation of the Self in Postcolonial Drama 389
Chapter 15 Africa: Wole Soyinka, Athol Fugard, and Christina Ama Ata Aidoo 401
Chapter 16 Central and South America: Carlos Fuentes and Derek Walcott 417
Chapter 17 Asia and the Middle East: Yukio Mishima, Gao Xingjian, Girish Karnad, Hanoch Levin, and SaaDallah Wannous 429
Chapter 18 Canada: Ann ]Marie MacDonald and Judith Thompson 449
Part VI: Nihilism at the Door 459
Chapter 19 Crisis of Values and Loss of Center in the Plays of Martin McDonagh and Sarah Kane 461
Chapter 20 Blasted, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, and Phaedra's Love 477
Chapter 21 Pushing More Boundaries: Children and Desire 493
Notes 500
Index 567
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