UID:
edocfu_9958354030102883
Format:
1 online resource(xi,336p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter Mouton. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9783110309959
Series Statement:
Contemporary Drama in English Studies; 24
Content:
This book is a timely intervention in theatre studies which reads Martin Crimp’s plays in the context of contemporary, late capitalist societies of control or of ‘spectacle’, and explores how female collapse in particular works as a form of denunciation of the violence of globalized, free-market economy. It contends that Crimp can best be understood as a post-Holocaust playwright, and it will be of interest to both specialists in Crimp and theatre studies, and to anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of Crimp’s dramaturgy.
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Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgements --
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Contents --
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I. Preliminaries I: Introduction and Rationale --
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1. Martin Crimp’s Context --
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2. The Semiotic Potential of Collapse on Stage --
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3. Redefining Ethics: A Collapsing Body --
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1. Introduction: Collapse, ‘In-Yer-Face’ Theatre and the ‘Society of Spectacle’ --
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2. The ‘Spectacle’ Filled our Pockets: Duplicity, Sexism and the Market --
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3. The Point of Rupture: Collapse and Barbarism --
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4. Conclusion: Towards Subjectivity and Ethics --
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IV. Postdramatic Plays: Attempts on her Life (1997) and Face to the Wall (2002) --
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1. Interpretation, Self-Regulation and Postdramatism --
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2. Short Circuits of Desire: Language and Power in Attempts on her Life --
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3. ‘The Stage, a Skull’: Male Collapse as Resistance in Face to the Wall --
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1. Stopping Time: Memory and Resistance in The Country (2000) --
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2. Oppression, Resistance and Terrorism in Cruel and Tender (2004) --
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1.1 Introduction: Mirroring Fragments, Play-Within-a-Play --
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1.2 Testimony as Resistance: Crimp’s and Mitchell’s Play-Within-a-Play --
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1.3 ‘Cold, Blank, Distant’: Breakdown as Resistance --
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VII. General Conclusions: Martin Crimp’s Theatre: a Dramaturgy of Resistance --
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Primary Sources --
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Secondary Sources.
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Also available in print edition.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110309072
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110309966
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110309959
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110309959
