Tragicomedy and Contemporary Culture - Play and Performance From Beckett to Shepard (Paperback, 1991 Ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Edinburgh Studies in Culture and Society
Release date:	September 1991
Authors:	John Orr
Dimensions:	216 x 140mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	170
Edition:	1991 Ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-333-53697-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > From 1900
LSN:	0-333-53697-5
Barcode:	9780333536971

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