Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth
McEvoy, Sean
Produktnummer:
18d3de498d6be84116b1d37d1d79d5841b
| Autor: | McEvoy, Sean |
|---|---|
| Themengebiete: | Allusion and intertextuality Class and contemporary theatre Contemporary Drama Jerusalem Jez Butterworth Myth and drama The Ferryman Tragedy |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 30.12.2020 |
| EAN: | 9783030627102 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 217 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
Produktinformationen "Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth"
Jez Butterworth is undoubtedly one of the most popular and commercially successful playwrights to have emerged in Britain in the early twenty-first century. This book, only the second so far to have been written on him, argues that the power of his most acclaimed work comes from a reinvigoration of traditional forms of tragedy expressed in a theatricalized working-class language. Butterworth’s most developed tragedies invoke myth and legend as a figurative resistance to the flat and crushing instrumentalism of contemporary British political and economic culture. In doing so they summon older, resonant narratives which are both popular and high-cultural in order to address present cultural crises in a language and in a form which possess wide appeal. Tracing the development of Butterworth’s work chronologically from Mojo (1995) to The Ferryman (2017), each chapter offers detailed critical readings of a single play, exploring how myth and legend become significantin a variety of ways to Butterworth’s presentation of cultural and personal crisis.
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