The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy is a detailed study of the idea of the tragic in the political plays of David Hare, Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane, and Jez Butterworth.
The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy is a detailed study of the idea of the tragic in the political plays of David Hare, Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane, and Jez Butterworth.
Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One David Hare: The Work of Mourning, or, The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Bourgeoisie The Year of Magical Thinking – Teeth ‘n’ Smiles – Plenty –– The Secret Rapture – Skylight – The Judas Kiss – Amy’s View – My Zinc Bed – The Permanent Way –– The Vertical Hour – Gethsemane Chapter Two Howard Barker: Will and Desire – From the Tragedy of Socialism to the Ecstasy of the Unconscious Claw – Fair Slaughter – That Good Between Us –– The Power of the Dog – Victory – The Castle – The Europeans –– The Possibilities – Gertrude-The Cry – Dead Hands – The Seduction of Almighty God by the Boy Priest Loftus in the Abbey of Calcetto, 1539 Chapter Three Edward Bond: Tragedy and Postmodernity, or, The Promethean Impulse Saved – Lear – Bingo – The Fool –– Restoration –– The War Plays – Olly’s Prison – At the Inland Sea – Coffee– The Crime of the Twenty-First Century – Chair Chapter Four Caryl Churchill: The Dionysian Möbius Strip Seven Jewish Children – Lovesick – Abortive –– Owners – Traps –– Light Shining in Buckinghamshire – Cloud Nine – Top Girls – Fen – A Mouthful of Birds –– Lives of the Great Poisoners – The Skriker – Thyestes ––– Far Away –– A Number Chapter Five New English Tragedians: The Tragedy of the Tragic Mark Ravenhill: Shopping and Fucking – Faust is Dead – Handbag – Some Explicit Polaroids – Product – The Cut – pool (no water) – Sarah Kane: Blasted – Phaedra’s Love – Cleansed – Crave – 4.48 Psychosis Conclusion: Late Modernism in Jerusalem Works Cited Index
Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One David Hare: The Work of Mourning, or, The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Bourgeoisie The Year of Magical Thinking – Teeth ‘n’ Smiles – Plenty –– The Secret Rapture – Skylight – The Judas Kiss – Amy’s View – My Zinc Bed – The Permanent Way –– The Vertical Hour – Gethsemane Chapter Two Howard Barker: Will and Desire – From the Tragedy of Socialism to the Ecstasy of the Unconscious Claw – Fair Slaughter – That Good Between Us –– The Power of the Dog – Victory – The Castle – The Europeans –– The Possibilities – Gertrude-The Cry – Dead Hands – The Seduction of Almighty God by the Boy Priest Loftus in the Abbey of Calcetto, 1539 Chapter Three Edward Bond: Tragedy and Postmodernity, or, The Promethean Impulse Saved – Lear – Bingo – The Fool –– Restoration –– The War Plays – Olly’s Prison – At the Inland Sea – Coffee– The Crime of the Twenty-First Century – Chair Chapter Four Caryl Churchill: The Dionysian Möbius Strip Seven Jewish Children – Lovesick – Abortive –– Owners – Traps –– Light Shining in Buckinghamshire – Cloud Nine – Top Girls – Fen – A Mouthful of Birds –– Lives of the Great Poisoners – The Skriker – Thyestes ––– Far Away –– A Number Chapter Five New English Tragedians: The Tragedy of the Tragic Mark Ravenhill: Shopping and Fucking – Faust is Dead – Handbag – Some Explicit Polaroids – Product – The Cut – pool (no water) – Sarah Kane: Blasted – Phaedra’s Love – Cleansed – Crave – 4.48 Psychosis Conclusion: Late Modernism in Jerusalem Works Cited Index
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