Format:
1 Online-Ressource (192 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783653056402
Series Statement:
English Literature and Culture in Context 3
Content:
The book presents post-war British historical drama not only as a phenomenon within literature and theatre, but also as an alternative form of representing the past, not as much competing with historiography as complementing it. The author shows how some of the central concerns of late twentieth-century methodology of history were also crucial for the historical drama of that time by applying Hayden White’s classification of categories determining the shape of historical writing to the plays of Robert Bolt, David Hare, Howard Barker and Tom Stoppard. The plays discussed in the book offer not only different visions of past events, but also different visions of historiography itself
Content:
Contents: Methodology of history – Hayden White's Metahistory – Post-war British historical drama – Central and Eastern Europe in British drama – The work of Robert Bolt, David Hare, Howard Barker and Tom Stoppard
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783631663257
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Schreiber, Paweł Stage histories Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang Edition, 2016 ISBN 9783631663257
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3631663250
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Historisches Drama
;
Geschichte 1956-2006
DOI:
10.3726/978-3-653-05640-2
URL:
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Author information:
Schreiber, Paweł
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