Adaptation and Nation: Theatrical Contexts for Contemporary English and Irish Drama

ISBN-13: 9781137425867 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 185 str.

Catherine Rees

Opis

This new book offers an account of the relationship between the 'original' text and its adaptation, within the context of nationhood. Focusing on recent Irish and English drama, the book explores the ways in which the new workings of plays (such as Phaedra's Love, Medea, After Miss Julie and The Cripple of Inishmaan) place emphasis on nationalism and national identity, positioning the text within a different national and social context, and changing the approach of the original to expose, explore or problematize the concept of nation within theatre.

Recenzje

"The [book] supply useful indices and are edited to high academic Standards ... . They can be wholeheartedly recommended and testify to the vibrancy of adaptation studies way beyond the traditional novel-into-film model." (Eckart Voigts, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 8 (2), 2020)

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Brian Friel.- Chapter 3. Marina Carr.- Chapter 4. Sarah Kane.- Chapter 5. Patrick Marber.- Chapter 6. “An Interlude”.- Chapter 7. Martin McDonagh.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

Catherine Rees is Lecturer in Drama at Loughborough University, UK.  She works primarily on contemporary British and Irish playwrights, and has published on Martin McDonagh, Sarah Kane and Harold Pinter.  She is especially interested in questions of nationalism, gender and political theatre.  

Blurb

This book focuses on modern theatrical adaptations that rework classic plays in new British and Irish settings. It explores these shifted national contexts and examines what they might reveal about the political and cultural climate of the new setting. In examining the modern setting alongside the country of the original text, it also reveals fascinating resonances between two different national contexts. The book discusses five British and Irish playwrights and their current adaptations, examining well-known dramatists such as Martin McDonagh, Sarah Kane and Brian Friel, while analysing some of their less-well known plays, offering a novel examination of the adaptation process. The book further provides an insightful commentary on some significant events of the twentieth century in Britain and Ireland, such as the historic Labour victory of 1945 and scandals in the Royal Family since the 1990s. This book will appeal to theatre and performance enthusiasts, as well as students and scholars of both theatre and adaptation.