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Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth/ by Sean McEvoy.
作者:	McEvoy, Sean.
面頁冊數:	VII, 217 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
標題:	Theatre and Performance Studies. -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62711-9
ISBN:	9783030627119

Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth
McEvoy, Sean.

Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth[electronic resource] /by Sean McEvoy. - 1st ed. 2021. - VII, 217 p.online resource.

1. Introduction -- 2. Yakkety Yak: Mojo (1995) -- 3. Exclusion from the Garden: The Night Heron (2002) -- 4. Homage: The Winterling (2006) -- 5. Drought: Parlour Song (2008) -- 6. The Enchanted Wood: Jerusalem (2009) -- 7. Time, Myth and Power: The River (2012) -- 8. Allusion: The Ferryman (2017).

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 significant in a variety of ways to Butterworth’s presentation of cultural and personal crisis.

ISBN: 9783030627119

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-62711-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1104911
Theatre and Performance Studies.

LC Class. No.: PN2000-3307

Dewey Class. No.: 792

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