Political Theatre of David Edgar - Negotiation and Retrieval

Informationen zum Autor Janelle Reinelt is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick. She was President of the International Federation for Theatre Research from 2004 to 2007, and is a former editor of the Theatre Journal. Her books include After Brecht: British Epic Theater (2004), Critical Theory and Performance (with Joseph Roach, 2007), The Performance of Power (with Sue-Ellen Case, 1991) and The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights (with Elaine Aston, Cambridge, 2000). She is the series editor, with Brian Singleton, of Studies in International Performance. Klappentext Covering David Edgar's most important plays and performances and critical reception, this study approaches the playwright as a political writer. Zusammenfassung Combining political philosophy and theatre studies! Reinelt and Hewitt approach David Edgar as a political writer and a public social critic. Twelve of Edgar's most important plays are analyzed in detail! alongside his political commentary and critical reception! to illustrate his contributions as a public figure in British cultural life. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: political commitment and performative practice; 2. Intervening in public discourse: Edgar as discursive arbiter; 3. Things fall apart: after ideology in Continental Divide and Maydays; 4. Governing memberships: Destiny, Playing with Fire and Testing the Echo; 5. A legend in your own time: The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs, Mary Barnes and Albert Speer; 6. Socialism's aftermath: The Shape of the Table, Pentecost and The Prisoner's Dilemma; 7. Conclusion: negotiating retrieval.

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• Autori: Gerald Hewitt, Gerald (University of the Pacific Hewitt, Janelle Reinelt, Janelle (University of Warwick) Reinelt, Janelle (University of Warwick) Hewitt Reinelt, Janelle G. Reinelt, Janelle G. Hewitt Reinelt, Prof. Janelle G. Hewitt Reinelt
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 14.07.2011
• EAN: 9780521509688
• ISBN: 978-0-521-50968-8
• Pagine: 324
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Modern Th; Cambridge Studies in Modern Th; Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese