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Rethinking Character in Contemporary British Theatre - Aesthetics, Politics, Subjectivity (Hardcover, Digital original) Loot Price: R3,101
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Rethinking Character in Contemporary British Theatre - Aesthetics, Politics, Subjectivity (Hardcover, Digital original)

Cristina Delgado-Garcia

Series: Contemporary Drama in English Studies

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The category of theatrical character has been swiftly dismissed in the academic reception of no-longer-dramatic texts and performances. However, claims on the dissolution of character narrowly demarcate what a subject is and how it may appear. This volume unmoors theatre scholarship from the regulatory ideals of liberal humanism, stretching the notion of character to encompass and illuminate otherwise unaccounted-for subjects, aesthetic strategies and political gestures in recent theatre works. To this aim, contemporary philosophical theories of subjectivation, European theatre studies, and experimental, script-led work produced in Britain since the late 1990s are mobilised as discussants on the question of subjectivity. Four contemporary playtexts and their performances are examined in depth: Sarah Kane's Crave and 4.48 Psychosis, Ed Thomas's Stone City Blue and Tim Crouch's ENGLAND. Through these case studies, Delgado-Garcia demonstrates alternative ways of engaging theoretically with character, and elucidating a range of subjective figures beyond identity and individuality. Alongside these analyses, the book traces a large body of work that has experimented with speech attribution since the early twentieth-century. This is a timely contribution to contemporary theatre scholarship, which demonstrates that character remains a malleable and politically-salient notion in which understandings of subjectivity are still being negotiated.

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Imprint: De Gruyter
Country of origin: Germany
Series: Contemporary Drama in English Studies
Release date: October 2015
First published: 2015
Authors: Cristina Delgado-Garcia
Dimensions: 230 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 240
Edition: Digital original
ISBN-13: 978-3-11-040390-9
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
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LSN: 3-11-040390-0
Barcode: 9783110403909

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