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Of Precariousness - Vulnerabilities, Responsibilities, Communities in 21st-Century British Drama and Theatre

English · Hardback

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Drawing primarily on Judith Butler's, Jacques Derrida's, Emmanuel Levinas's and Jean-Luc Nancy's reflections on precariousness/precarity, the Self and the Other, ethical responsibility/obligation, forgiveness, hos(ti)pitality and community, the essays in this volume examine the various ways in which contemporary British drama and theatre engage with 'the precarious'. Crucially, what emerges from the discussion of a wide range of plays - including Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem, Caryl Churchill's Here We Go, Martin Crimp's Fewer Emergencies and In the Republic of Happiness, Tim Crouch's The Author, Forced Entertainment's Tomorrow's Parties, David Greig's The American Pilot and The Events, Dennis Kelly's Love and Money, Mark Ravenhill's Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat, Philip Ridley's Mercury Fur, Robin Soans's Talking to Terrorists, Simon Stephens's Pornography, theTheatre Uncut project, debbie tucker green's dirty butterfly and Laura Wade's Posh - is the observation that contemporary (British) drama and theatre often realises its thematic and formal/structural potential to the full precisely by reflecting upon the category and the episteme of precariousness, and deliberately turning audience members into active participants in the process of negotiating ethical agency.

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Mireia Aragay, University of Barcelona, Spain; Martin Middeke, University of Augsburg, Germany.

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Assisted by Mirei Aragay (Editor), Mireia Aragay (Editor), Middeke (Editor), Middeke (Editor), Martin Middeke (Editor)
Publisher De Gruyter
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.08.2017
 
EAN 9783110546743
ISBN 978-3-11-054674-3
No. of pages 241
Dimensions 161 mm x 19 mm x 233 mm
Weight 494 g
Series Contemporary Drama in English Studies
Contemporary Drama in English Studies
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Subject Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet

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