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Tragicomedy and Contemporary Culture - Play and Performance from Beckett to Shepard (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,334
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Tragicomedy and Contemporary Culture - Play and Performance from Beckett to Shepard (Hardcover): John Orr

Tragicomedy and Contemporary Culture - Play and Performance from Beckett to Shepard (Hardcover)

John Orr

Series: Edinburgh Studies in Culture and Society

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This study examines the historical relationship between tragicomedy in the modernist theatre and the performative culture of Western consumer societies. While discussing a wide range of playwrights, it focusses specifically on the work of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Sam Shepard. Their plays, it is argued, illuminate the forms of pleasure, fear, performance and corruption which dominate our daily lives. Tragicomedy is seen as unique because of the existential playfulness and confusion of its protagonists, and because of its muted vision of apocalypse in the nuclear age.

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Edinburgh Studies in Culture and Society
Release date: September 1991
First published: 1991
Authors: John Orr
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 978-0-333-44879-3
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
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LSN: 0-333-44879-0
Barcode: 9780333448793

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