Despite the recent turn to affects and emotions in the humanities
and despite the unceasing popularity of romantic and erotic love as
a motif in fictional works of all genres, the subject has received
surprisingly little attention in academic studies of contemporary
drama. Love in Contemporary British Drama reflects the appeal of
love as a topic and driving force in dramatic works with in-depth
analyses of eight pivotal plays from the past three decades.
Following an interdisciplinary and historical approach, the study
collects and condenses theories of love from philosophy and
sociology to derive persisting discourses and to examine their
reoccurrence and transformation in contemporary plays. Special
emphasis is put on narratives of love's compensatory function and
precariousness and on how modifications of these narratives
epitomise the peculiarities of emotional life in the social and
cultural context of the present. Based on the assumption that drama
is especially inclined to draw on shared narratives for
representations of love, the book demonstrates that love is both a
window to remnants of the past in the present and a proper subject
matter for drama in times in which the suitability of the dramatic
form has been questioned.
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