Drama + Theory

Critical Approaches

Peter Buse, Rebecca Mortimer

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English

Manchester University Press
11 October 2001

Literary studies: plays & playwrights

Energetically places modern British drama and contemporary critical and cultural theory in dialogue, demonstrating how theory allows fresh insights into familiar plays. Each chapter pairs a well-known play from the post-war period with a classic theory text, the theoretical text is not simply applied to the dramatic one: instead, the play and the theoretical text reflect on each other in a mutual illumination. Examples include:

So Look Back in Anger is read by and reads Lacan's Signification of the PhallusPinter's The Homecoming is made uncanny with FreudStoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead finds affinities with Lyotard's The Postmodern ConditionTimberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good agrees and disagrees with Edward SaidSarah Kane's Blasted thinks through trauma with Shoshana Felman. In each case, the theoretical position is explained lucidly and economically. The result is a series of new interpretations not only of the plays, but of the theoretical texts, which take on new relevance when linked with modern British drama. The first textbook of its kind, linking contemporary drama with critical and cultural theory. -- .

By: Peter Buse
Other: Rebecca Mortimer
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 286g
ISBN: 9780719057229
ISBN 10: 0719057221
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 11 October 2001
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Buse is Lecturer in English and a member of the European Studies Research Institute at the University of Salford