Carney The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4426-6350-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy is a detailed study of the idea of the tragic in the political plays of David Hare, Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane, and Jez Butterworth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carney, Sean

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One
David Hare: The Work of Mourning, or, The Agony and the Ecstasy of the BourgeoisieThe Year of Magical Thinking – Teeth ‘n’ Smiles – Plenty –– The Secret Rapture – Skylight – The Judas Kiss – Amy’s View – My Zinc Bed – The Permanent Way –– The Vertical Hour – Gethsemane Chapter Two
Howard Barker: Will and Desire – From the Tragedy of Socialism to the Ecstasy of the UnconsciousClaw – Fair Slaughter – That Good Between Us –– The Power of the Dog – Victory – The Castle – The Europeans –– The Possibilities – Gertrude-The Cry – Dead Hands – The Seduction of Almighty God by the Boy Priest Loftus in the Abbey of Calcetto, 1539Chapter Three
Edward Bond: Tragedy and Postmodernity, or, The Promethean ImpulseSaved – Lear – Bingo – The Fool –– Restoration –– The War Plays – Olly’s Prison – At the Inland Sea – Coffee– The Crime of the Twenty-First Century – ChairChapter Four
Caryl Churchill: The Dionysian Möbius StripSeven Jewish Children – Lovesick – Abortive –– Owners – Traps –– Light Shining in Buckinghamshire – Cloud Nine – Top Girls – Fen – A Mouthful of Birds –– Lives of the Great Poisoners – The Skriker – Thyestes ––– Far Away –– A NumberChapter Five
New English Tragedians: The Tragedy of the TragicMark Ravenhill: Shopping and Fucking – Faust is Dead – Handbag – Some Explicit Polaroids – Product – The Cut – pool (no water) – Sarah Kane: Blasted – Phaedra’s Love – Cleansed – Crave – 4.48 PsychosisConclusion: Late Modernism in JerusalemWorks CitedIndex

Über Autor(innen)

CarneySean:
Sean Carney is an associate professor in the Department of English at McGill University.