Rethinking the theatre of the absurd : ecology, the environment and the greening of the modern stage

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    • Lavery, Carl
    • Finburgh, Clare

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Rethinking the theatre of the absurd : ecology, the environment and the greening of the modern stage

edited by Carl Lavery and Clare Finburgh

（Methuen drama engage / series editors, Enoch Brater and Mark Taylor-Batty）

Bloomsbury, 2015

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内容説明

Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd is an innovative collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of theatre, performance and eco-criticism, which reconfigures absurdist theatre through the optics of ecology and environment. As well as offering strikingly new interpretations of the work of canonical playwrights such as Beckett, Genet, Ionesco, Adamov, Albee, Kafka, Pinter, Shepard and Churchill, the book playfully mimics the structure of Martin Esslin's classic text The Theatre of the Absurd, which is commonly recognised as one of the most important scholarly publications of the 20th century. By reading absurdist drama, for the first time, as an emergent form of ecological theatre, Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd interrogates afresh the very meaning of absurdism for 21st-century audiences, while at the same time making a significant contribution to the development of theatre and performance studies as a whole. The collection's interdisciplinary approach, accessibility, and ecological focus will appeal to students and academics in a number of different fields, including theatre, performance, English, French, geography and philosophy. It will also have a major impact on the new cross disciplinary paradigm of eco-criticism.

目次

Introduction: Greening the Absurd - Carl Lavery and Clare Finburgh 1. Caryl Churchill's 'Dark Ecology' - Elaine Aston 2. The Garden in the Machine: Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, and the American Absurd - Stephen Bottoms 3. Mutant Bodies: the Absurd in Eastern European Experience - Ralph Yarrow 4. Recycling Beckett - Joe Kelleher 5. Rare Butterflies, Persecution, and Pinball Machines: Environment, Subjectivity, and Society in the Theatre of Arthur Adamov - Franc Chamberlain 6. Ionesco's Green Lesson: Toxic Environments, Ecologies of Air - Carl Lavery 7. Nettles in the Rose Garden: Ecocentrism in Jean Genet's Theatre - Clare Finburgh 8. The Secluded Voice: The Impossible Call Home in Early Pinter - Mark Taylor Batty and Carl Lavery Epilogue: David Williams Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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