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Anglo-American Interplay in Recent Drama (Hardcover, New)
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The provocative notion of a contemporary cross-cultural exchange
within the medium of theatre is here imposed upon a dozen
contemporary Anglo-American dramatists: Alan Ayckbourn and Neil
Simon, Edward Bond and Sam Shepard, David Mamet and Harold Pinter,
Caryl Churchill and Maria Irene Fornes, David Hare and David Rabe,
Christopher Hampton and Richard Nelson. In each pairing, Ruby Cohn
unites a British with an American playwright, exploring
similarities both apparent and embedded - similarities that serve
as a springboard for the exposure of a more profound, culturally
based difference. Cohn brings a critical eye of unusual versatility
and experience to the reading of these paired playwrights. In
Pinter and Mamet, for example, she notes the shared sense of
linguistic play. In the plays of Bond and Shepard, on the other
hand, she explores the plight of the artist in society; in those of
Simon and Ayckbourn, the comic exposition of middle-class mores.
Without engaging in cultural reductivism or misleading stereotypes,
Cohn demonstrates how such themes lend themselves to differing
interpretations in Great Britain and in the United States. A
certain transatlantic double focus thus illuminates both the
composition and the interpretation of dramatic works in an
increasingly globally minded age.
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