English Drama Since 1940

ISBN-13: 9780582423725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 264 str.

David Ian Rabey

Opis

This is an introductory guide to the themes, styles, concerns and contexts of English drama, from 1940 to the turn of the 21st century.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION: HOW SHOULD WE LIVE?  1. 1940-56: RECONCILIATION AND DISSOCIATION  2. OUT OF 1956: A RISING GENERATION  3. BECKETT AND PINTER: TERMINAL CONTRACTIONS OF (IN) CONSEQUENCE  4. OUT OF THE 1950's AND 1960's: WHOSE IS THE KINGDOM?  5. BOND: BLIND POWER 6. SUBVERSION AND CONCILLIATION: COMEDY FROM THE 1960's TO THE   7. OUT OF THE 1970's AND 1980's: RAGE AT A BLOCKED AGE: FOUR ODYSSEYS  8. MELTING THE BOUNDARIES: NEW EXPRESSIONISM FROM THE 1970's TO THE 1990's  9. IRISH DRAMA: TWILIGHTS AND TIGERS  10. FROM THE 1980's TO THE 1990's: TRAPPED ENOUGH TO BELONG  11. BARKER: APPALLING ENHANCEMENTS 12. A BLASTED F£££ing DIFFERENCE?: THE 1990's AND BEYOND THE BIG ZEROS 

O autorze

David Ian Rabey