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Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015 - Art, Modernity and the National Stage (Hardcover)
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Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015 - Art, Modernity and the National Stage (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Companions
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Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015 provides a critical and
historical exploration of a tradition of modern dramatic creativity
that has received very little scholarly attention. Exploring the
emergence of a distinctly modern verse drama at the turn of the
century and its development into the twenty-first, it counters
common assumptions that the form is a marginal, fundamentally
outdated curiosity. Through an examination of the extensive and
diverse engagement of literary and theatrical writers, directors
and musicians, Irene Morra identifies in modern verse drama a
consistent and often prominent attempt to expand upon, revitalize,
and redefine the contemporary English stage. Dramatists discussed
include Stephen Phillips, Gordon Bottomley, John Masefield, James
Elroy Flecker, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Ronald Duncan, Christopher
Fry, John Arden, Anne Ridler, Tony Harrison, Steven Berkoff, Caryl
Churchill, and Mike Bartlett. 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. The study advocates
for a scholarly revaluation of what must be identified as an
influential and overlooked tradition of aesthetic challenge and
creativity.
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