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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Buchreihe	:	Adaptation in Theatre and Performance
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	24. 10. 2017
Seiten	:	194
Einband	:	Gebunden
Höhe	:	210 mm
Breite	:	148 mm
Gewicht	:	402 g
ISBN	:	9781137444523
Sprache	:	Englisch

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Autorinformation

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Graham Saunders is Allardyce Nicol Professor of Drama Arts at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is author of Love me or Kill me: Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes (2002), About Kane: the Playwright and the Work (2009), Patrick Marber’s Closer (2008) and British Theatre Companies 1980-1994 (2015). He is co-editor of Cool Britannia: Political Theatre in the 1990s (Palgrave, 2008) and Sarah Kane in Context (2010).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Contents.- Acknowledgements.- 1. Introduction: Appropriating the Past.- 2. Why Rewrite Shakespeare & his Contemporaries?.- 3. A Host of Lears: Howard Barker's Seven Lears, Elaine Feinstein's Lear's Daughters and Sarah Kane’s Blasted.- 4. ‘Love in the Museum’: Howard Barker, the Erotic and the Classical Text.- 5. ‘If Power Change Purpose’: Appropriation and the Shakespearian Despot.- 6. Anyone for Venice? Wesker. Marowitz & Pascal Appropriate The Merchant of Venice.- 7. Festive Tragedy: Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem.- Bibliography.- Index.

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“The most satisfying aspects of the book are the more sustained readings of such complex and highly thought-provoking playtexts as Butterworth’s, Kane’s, or Greig’s that it manages to focus on for more than a few paragraphs. … the study provides rich material and collects many pertinent quotations from relevant sources.” (Tobias Döring, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 8 (2), 2020)

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