The Political Theatre of David Edgar: Negotiation and Retrieval

ISBN-13: 9780521509688 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 324 str.

Janelle Reinelt

Opis

Covering David Edgar's most important plays and performances and critical reception, this study approaches the playwright as a political writer.

Recenzje

"Janelle Reinelt and Gerald Hewitt's meticulously researched and clearly argued book offers a timely and refreshing way of looking at a dramatist whose socially committed work over four decades has established him as one of the most accomplished and influential political playwrights in Britain."
--Comparative Drama

Spis treści

1. Introduction: political commitment and performative practice; 2. Intervening in public discourse: Edgar as discursive arbiter; 3. Things fall apart: after ideology in Continental Divide and Maydays; 4. Governing memberships: Destiny, Playing with Fire and Testing the Echo; 5. A legend in your own time: The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs, Mary Barnes and Albert Speer; 6. Socialism's aftermath: The Shape of the Table, Pentecost and The Prisoner's Dilemma; 7. Conclusion: negotiating retrieval.