Peters The Plays of CODCO

Edited by Helen Peters
1485. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4539-1079-5
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 14, 0 Seiten

Reihe: American University Studies

This book presents the texts of five plays, collectively written and performed during the years 1973 to 1976 by the Newfoundland theatre troupe CODCO. CODCO's satiric plays expose universal perversity, ignorance, prejudice and abuse with the ironic wit of the people of Newfoundland. The plays are distinguished by their graveyard or gallows humour. CODCO played an important role in the evolution of Canadian theatre and is an early signifier of Canada's attainment of cultural maturity. CODCO's current weekly television series commenced broadcasting in 1988.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peters, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Einzelne Theaterschauspieler & Regisseure

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Texts of five CODCO plays: Cod on a Stick; Sickness, Death and Beyond the Grave; Das Capital: Or What Do You Want to See the Harbour for Anyway? Do You Want to Smell My...Pocket Crumbs? and The Tale Ends. Introduction, Note on the Text, Glossary of Unfamiliar Words, Production Photographs, Musical Scores of Show Songs, Textual Apparatus of Variant Readings, List of Textual Sources, Actors associated with CODCO plays.

Über Autor(innen)

The Editor: Helen Peters received her B.A. and M.A. from Memorial University of Newfoundland and her D. Phil. from Oxford University where she held a Junior Research Fellowship at Somerville College. She has taught at Somerville and Manchester Colleges, Oxford, at he University of Ottawa, Ontario, and she is currently an associate professor in the Department of English at Memorial. Her doctoral dissertation was published as 'A Critical Edition of the Paradoxes and Problems of John Donne', a work which was awarded the Rosemary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy. Her articles on seventeenth-century British literature and Newfoundland theatre have appeared in professional journals and books.