Author: Sir John Scott KeltiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
The Works of the British Dramatists
Author: Sir John Scott KeltiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
The Works of the British Dramatists ... Selected from the Best Editions, with ... Notes, Biographies, and a Historical Introduction
Author: Sir John Scott KeltiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The works of the British dramatists, selected, with notes, biographies, and intr. by J.S. Keltie
Author: sir John Scott KeltiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Contemporary British Drama
Author: David LanePublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748686797
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This book offers an extended analysis of writers and theatre companies in Britain since 1995, and explores them alongside recent cultural, social and political developments. Referencing well-known practitioners from modern theatre, this book is an excelle
The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers
Author: Mustapha MaturaPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140813098X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers provides an essential anthology of six of the key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from the late-1970s to the present day. In doing so it charts the journey from specialist black theatre companies to the mainstream, including West End success, while providing a cultural and racial barometer for Britain during the last forty years. It opens with Mustapha Matura's 1979 play Welcome Home Jacko which in its depiction of a group of young unemployed West Indians was one of the first to explore issues of youth culture, identity and racial and cultural identification. Jackie Kay's Chiaroscuro examines debates about the politics of black, mixed race and lesbian identities in 1980s Britain, and from the 1990s Winsome Pinnock's Talking in Tongues engages with the politics of feminism to explore issues of black women's identity in Britian and Jamaica. From the first decade of the twenty-first century the three plays include Roy Williams' seminal pub-drama Sing Yer Hearts Out for the Lads, exploring racism and identity against the backdrop of the World Cup; Kwame Kwei-Armah's National Theatre play of 2004, Fix Up, about black cultural history and progress in modern Britain, and finally Bola Agbage's terrific 2007 debut, Gone Too Far!, which examines questions of identity and tensions between Africans and Caribbeans living in Britain. Edited by Lynnette Goddard, this important anthology provides an essential introduction to the last forty years of British black theatre.
The British Drama
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Selections from the Modern British Dramatists
Author: George Henry LewesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Bible and Modern British Drama
Author: Mary F. BrewerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000691519
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The Bible and Modern British Drama: 1930 to the Present Day is the first full-length study to explore how playwrights in the modern period have adapted popular biblical stories, such as Abraham and Isaac, Moses and the Exodus from Egypt, and the life and death of Jesus, for the stage. The book offers detailed and accessible interpretations of the work of well-known dramatists such as Christopher Fry, Howard Brenton, and Steven Berkoff, alongside the work of writers whose plays have been neglected in recent criticism, such as James Bridie and Laurence Housman. The drama is analysed within the context of changes in religious belief and practice over the course of the modern period in Britain, comparing plays that approach the Bible from a traditional religious perspective with those that offer alternative viewpoints on the text, including the voices of gay, feminist, black, Jewish, and Muslim dramatists. In doing so, the author offers a broad and in-depth exploration that is grounded in current scholarship, ranging from the past to present, across boundaries of race and gender. Ideal for students, researchers, and general readers interested in understanding how the Bible has served as an important source text for British playwrights in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, The Bible and Modern British Drama shows how Bible-based drama has been influential in creating and disseminating ideas of what constitutes a "good" life, both on an individual and social level.
Modern Dramatists
Author: Kimball KingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136521194
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies.
A Topographical Dictionary to the Works of Shakespeare and His Fellow Dramatists
Author: Edward Holdsworth SugdenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
