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The Contemporary History Play: Staging English and American Pasts

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Availability:In StockContributor:Benjamin PooreSeries:Methuen Drama EngagePublish date:2024-06-27Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury Methuen DramaISBN-13:9781350169630ISBN-10:1350169633UPC:9781350169630Book Category:Performing Arts, DramaBook Subcategory:Theater, EuropeanBook Topic:Playwriting, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCE2QXHTZY
Something exciting is happening with the contemporary history play. New writing by playwrights such as Jackie Sibblies Drury, Samuel Adamson, Hannah Khalil, Cordelia Lynn, and Lucy Kirkwood, makes powerful theatrical use of the past, but does not fit into critics' familiar categories of historical drama. In this book, Benjamin Poore provides readers with tools to name and critically analyse these changes.

The Contemporary History Play contends that many history plays are becoming more complex and layered in their aesthetic approaches, as playwrights work through the experience of being surrounded by numerous and varied forms of historical representation in the twenty-first century.

For theatre scholars, this bookoffers a means of interpreting how new writing relies on the past and notions of historicity to generate meaning and resonance in the present. For playwrights and students of playwriting, the book is a guide to the history play's recent past, and to the state of the art: what techniques and formulas have been popular, the tropes that are widely used, and how artists have found ways of renewing or overturning established conventions.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury Methuen DramaISBN-13:9781350169630ISBN-10:1350169633UPC:9781350169630Book Category:Performing Arts, DramaBook Subcategory:Theater, EuropeanBook Topic:Playwriting, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCE2QXHTZY
Benjamin Poore is Professor of Theatre at the University of York, UK. He is the author of Heritage, Nostalgia and Modern British Theatre: Staging the Victorians (2012); Theatre and Empire (2016); and Sherlock Holmes from Screen to Stage (2017). He has also edited the collection Neo-Victorian Villains (2017) and co-edited Contemporary Gothic Drama (2018). Ben's interests include histories of playwriting, literary and neo-Victorian adaptations, and the uses of historical material in theatre-making practices.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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