Strategies of political theatre
| Titel: | Strategies of political theatre : post-War British playwrights / Michael Patterson |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003 |
| Umfang: | XVIII, 232 S. |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Cambridge studies in modern theatre |
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Vorliegende Ausgabe: | Online-Ausg.: 2004. - Online-Ressource. |
| ISBN: | 0511065272 (Sekundärausgabe) ; 9780511065279 (Sekundärausgabe) |
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Inhaltsbeschreibung der Sammlung und Zugangshinweise
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- Acknowledgements
- Brief chronology, 1953âÇô1989
- Introduction
- Part I
- Theory
- 1
- Strategies of political theatre: a theoretical overview
- Part II
- Two Model Strategies
- 2
- The 'reflectionist' strategy: 'kitchen sink' realism in Arnold Wesker's Roots (1959)
- 3
- The 'interventionist' strategy: poetic politics in John Arden's Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959)
- Part III
- The Reflectionist Strain
- 4
- The dialectics of comedy: Trevor Griffiths's Comedians (1975)
- 5
- Appropriating middle-class comedy: Howard Barker's Stripwell (1975)
- 6
- Staging the future: Howard Brenton's The Churchill Play (1974)
- Part IV
- The Interventionist Strain
- 7
- Agit-prop revisited: John McGrath's The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil (1973)
- 8
- Brecht revisited: David Hare's Fanshen (1975)
- 9
- Rewriting Shakespeare: Edward Bond's Lear (1971)
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- The strategy of play: Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine (1979)
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
