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Informationen zum Autor Mary Luckhurst is Senior Lecturer in Modern Drama at the University of York. She is the author of Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre (2006), co-author of The Drama Handbook: A Guide to Reading Plays (2002), and co-editor of Theatre and Celebrity in Britain, 1660-2000 (2005). She has also edited The Creative Writing Handbook: Techniques for New Writers (1996), On Directing: Interviews with Directors (1999) , and On Acting: Interviews with Actors (2002). She was awarded a University of York outstanding teaching award in 2006 and is also one of the Higher Education Academy's National Teaching Fellows. Klappentext This Companion provides a set of provocative agendas for investigating modern drama. It offers the most comprehensive challenge to existing constructions of the canon and examines in detail the dialogue between developments in Britain and Ireland. Contributors investigate radical postcolonial readings, offer revisionist feminist critiques, and reflect on why certain playwrights have been written in and others written out. Why have certain institutions dominated the constructions of dramatic canons? What role have female playwrights adopted in challenging stage conventions and modes of production? These are among the questions addressed by the Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama . The volume analyzes a wide range of plays and performance traditions, and explores the political, cultural, economic and institutional frameworks that readers require in order to get to grips with them. The Companion plots continuities and discontinuities, innovations, and resistances to the new. Its authoritative contributions highlight different treatments of realist conventions, investigate anti-realist experiments, and examine representations of war, terrorism, comedy, trauma and sexuality by playwrights from Shaw and Wilde to the present. Contributors also discuss the contending forces that have influenced the construction of the modern dramatic canon, engaging with contemporary discourses that challenge the dominance of London as well as of white English males and realism. Zusammenfassung This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural! social! economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements xi List of Illustrations xii Notes on Contributors xiii Introduction 1 Mary Luckhurst Part I Contexts 5 1 Domestic and Imperial Politics in Britain and Ireland: The Testimony of Irish Theatre 7 Victor Merriman 2 Reinventing England 22 Declan Kiberd 3 Ibsen in the English Theatre in the Fin de Siecle 35 Katherine Newey 4 New Woman Drama 48 Sally Ledger Part II Mapping New Ground, 1900-1939 61 5 Shaw among the Artists 63 Jan McDonald 6 Granville Barker and the Court Dramatists 75 Cary M. Mazer 7 Gregory, Yeats and Ireland's Abbey Theatre 87 Mary Trotter 8 Suffrage Theatre: Community Activism and Political Commitment 99 Susan Carlson 9 Unlocking Synge Today 110 Christopher Murray 10 Sean O'Casey's Powerful Fireworks 125 Jean Chothia 11 Auden and Eliot: Theatres of the Thirties 138 Robin Grove Part III England, Class and Empire, 1939-1990 151 12 Empire and Class in the Theatre of John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy 153 Mary Brewer 13 When Was the Golden Age? Narratives of Loss and Decline: John Osborne, Arnold Wesker and Rodney Ackland 164 St...
