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Twenty-First Century Drama

What Happens Now

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Editors:
  1. Siân Adiseshiah

    1. School of English and Journalism, University of Lincoln , Lincoln, United Kingdom

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  2. Louise LePage

    1. Department of Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading , Reading, United Kingdom

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: What Happens Now

    • Siân Adiseshiah, Louise LePage
    Pages 1-13

  3. Beyond Postmodernism: Changing Perspectives on Drama

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Room for Realism?

      • Elaine Aston
      Pages 17-35

    3. Beyond Belief: British Theatre and the ‘re-enchantment of the world’

      • Chris Megson
      Pages 37-57

    4. The Emancipated Shakespeare: or, What You Will

      • Stephen Bottoms
      Pages 59-80

    5. The Twenty-First-Century History Play

      • Paola Botham
      Pages 81-103
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About this book

Within this landmark collection, original voices from the field of drama provide rich analysis of a selection of the most exciting and remarkable plays and productions of the twenty-first century. But what makes the drama of the new millenium so distinctive? Which events, themes, shifts, and paradigms are marking its stages? Kaleidoscopic in scope, Twenty-First Century Drama: What Happens Now creates a broad, rigorously critical framework for approaching the drama of this period, including its forms, playwrights, companies, institutions, collaborative projects, and directors. The collection has a deliberately British bent, examining established playwrights – such as Churchill, Brenton, and Hare – alongside a new generation of writers – including Stephens, Prebble, Kirkwood, Bartlett, and Kelly. Simultaneously international in scope, it engages with significant new work from the US, Japan, India, Australia, and the Netherlands, to reflect a twenty-first century context that is fundamentally globalized. The volume’s central themes – the financial crisis, austerity, climate change, new forms of human being, migration, class, race and gender, cultural politics and issues of nationhood – are mediated through fresh, cutting-edge perspectives.

Reviews

“The volume offers fascinating glimpses into current trends in British drama with occasional forays to other English-speaking countries like Australia and the USA, to Japan and mainland Europe.” (Anette Pankratz, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 6 (02), November, 2018)

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of English and Journalism, University of Lincoln , Lincoln, United Kingdom

    Siân Adiseshiah

  • Department of Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading , Reading, United Kingdom

    Louise LePage

About the editors

Siân Adiseshiah is Reader in English Literature and Drama in the School of Humanities at the University of Lincoln, UK. She is a specialist in contemporary theatre and twenty-first century literature, and her previous publications include Twenty-First Century Fiction (co-edited with Rupert Hildyard, Palgrave, 2013), Churchill's Socialism (CSP, 2009) and a variety of book chapters and articles. She is also co-organiser of the biennial international conference series, 'What Happens Now: 21st Century Writing in English'.

Louise LePage is a Teaching Fellow in the Drama and Theatre Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Her previous publications include articles in journals such as Culture, Language and Representation, Modern Drama and Platform.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Twenty-First Century Drama

  • Book Subtitle: What Happens Now

  • Editors: Siân Adiseshiah, Louise LePage

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48403-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-48402-4Published: 27 July 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-69471-6Published: 09 January 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-48403-1Published: 17 June 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 348

  • Topics: Theatre History, Performing Arts

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