Format:
1 Online-Ressource (287 pages)
Edition:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781472580177
Series Statement:
Critical companions
Content:
Modern Verse Drama explores the emergence of the form at the turn of the century and its development into the twenty-first, offering key case studies of well-known verse dramatists alongside explorations of less-discussed but equally influential writers within the form. Dramatists discussed include T. S. Eliot, Gordon Bottomley, Charles Williams, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Ronald Duncan, Christopher Fry, John Arden, Anne Ridler, Tony Harrison, Ted Hughes, and Caryl Churchill. The book explores the negotiation of these dramatists with the changing position of verse drama in relation to constructions of national and communal audience, aesthetic challenge, and dramatic heritage. Key to the study is the self-conscious positioning of many of these dramatists in relation to an assumed mainstream tradition - and the various critical responses that that positioning has provoked
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-280) and index
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Introduction : modern verse drama in England : the forgotten tradition -- Nineteenth-century legacies : spectacle, sonority and romantic reform in the theatre of Stephen Phillips and James Elroy Flecker -- The new drama : social challenge and poetic theatre from W.B. Yeats to Terence Gray -- Georgian revolt : John Masefield, Shakespeare and Gordon Bottomley's King Lear's Wife -- Religious drama : theatrical experimentation and spiritual renewal between the wars -- Music, politics and modern poet : T. S. Eliot and W.H. Auden in the 1930s -- Renaissance and false dawn : mainstream success on the post-war stage -- Anger and aftermath : royal court, national theatre and verse drama after 1956 -- Tradition and trajectory : verse and dramatic heritage in Caryl Churchill, Steven Berkoff and Tony Harrison -- The return of the king : King Charles III and Shakespearean power and pastiche.
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Also published in print
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Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781472580177
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