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Cool Britannia? N. Pohl

Cool Britannia? By N. Pohl

Cool Britannia? by N. Pohl

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Cool Britannia? draws on new research to create a critical framework for approaching the drama of this period. It examines the work of established playwrights as well as the generation of young writers who emerged in the mid-1990s and explores a wide variety of key issues including cultural politics and constructions of race and gender.

Cool Britannia? Summary

Cool Britannia?: British Political Drama in the 1990s by N. Pohl

Cool Britannia? draws on new research to create a critical framework for approaching the drama of this period. It examines the work of established playwrights as well as the generation of young writers who emerged in the mid-1990s and explores a wide variety of key issues including cultural politics and constructions of race and gender.

Cool Britannia? Reviews

'This is an impressive collection by some of the best critics in the field. Each contribution is in dialogue with the subject matter and each other, providing salient observations about British 'Rough theatre' in an age of bodily mutilation...A superb reader for students studying the plays and playwrights of this volatile era.' - David Krasner, Yale University, USA 'This volume on British political drama in the 1990s is a welcome addition to the scholarship on the period' - Aoife Monks, Contemporary Theatre Review

About N. Pohl

REBECCA D'MONTE is Senior lecturer in Drama at the University of the West of England, UK. She is co-editor of Female Communities 1600-1800: Literary Visions and Cultural Realities

GRAHAM SAUNDERS is a lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Reading, UK. He is author of 'Love Me or Kill Me': Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes, and has published a number of articles on contemporary British and Irish drama for the journals Contemporary Theatre Review, New Theatre Quarterly, Journal of Beckett Studies and Theatre Research International

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.- Contributors.- Introduction; G.Saunders.- PART 1: IN-YER-FACE THEATRE: A RECONSTRUCTION.- 'We All Need Stories': The Politics of In-Yer-Face Theatre; A.Sierz.- Cruel Britannia; K.Urban.- Harold Pinter and Poetic Politics; M.Luckhurst.- PART 2: THATCHERISM AND (POST-) FEMINISM.- Thatcher's Children: Alienation and Anomie in the Plays of Judy Upton; R.D'Monte.- Middle Class Aspirations and Black Women's Mental (Ill) Health in Zindika's Leonora's Dance, and Bonnie.- Greer's Munda Negra and Dancing on Blackwater; L.Goddard.- A Good Night Out, For the Girls; E.Aston
.- PART 3: NATION, DEVOLUTION AND GLOBALIZATION.- 'Mapping the Territory': Modern Scottish Drama; D.Pattie.- 'The Net and the Self': Colliding Views of Individuality and Nationhood in the Pre-Devolutionary Plays of .- Mark Jenkins and Ed Thomas; R.Owen.- A Legacy of Violence': Representing Loyalism in the Plays of Gary Mitchell; N.Holdsworth & W.McDowell.- 'Because it Feels Fucking Amazing': Recent British Drama and Bodily Mutilation; D.Rebellato.- 'Rough Theatre'; D.Greig.- Bibliography.- Index.

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GOR004785446
9781403988133
1403988137
Cool Britannia?: British Political Drama in the 1990s by N. Pohl
N. Pohl
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Palgrave USA
20071119
264
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