Twenty-First Century Drama What Happens Now
What makes twenty-first century drama distinctive? Which events, themes, shifts, and paradigms are marking its stages? Within this landmark collection, original voices from the field of drama provide rich analysis of a selection of the most exciting and r
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edited by
siân adiseshiah and louise lepage
Twenty-First Century Drama
Siân Adiseshiah • Louise LePage Editors
Twenty-First Century Drama What Happens Now
Editors Siân Adiseshiah School of English and Journalism University of Lincoln United Kingdom
Louise LePage Department of Film, Theatre & Television University of Reading United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-48402-4 ISBN 978-1-137-48403-1 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-48403-1
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CONTENTS
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Introduction: What Happens Now Siân Adiseshiah and Louise LePage
Part 1 Beyond Postmodernism: Changing Perspectives on Drama 2 Room for Realism? Elaine Aston 3
Beyond Belief: British Theatre and the ‘re-enchantment of the world’ Chris Megson
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The Emancipated Shakespeare: or, What You Will Stephen Bottoms
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The Twenty-First-Century History Play Paola Botham
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Part 2 6
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Austerity and Class Returns
Back to the Future: Gendering the Economy in Twenty-First-Century Drama Louise Owen
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Translating Austerity: Theatrical Responses to the Financial Crisis Mark O’Thomas
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‘Chavs’, ‘Gyppos’ and ‘Scum’? Class in Twenty-First-Century Drama Siân Adiseshiah
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Part 3 Borders, Race, Nation 9
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These Green and Pleasant Lands: Travellers, Gypsies and the Lament for England in Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem Nadine Holdsworth
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‘Sexy Kilts with Attitude’: Scottish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century Trish Reid
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The Polit
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