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Contemporary British Theatre

Breaking New Ground

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Vicky Angelaki

    1. University of Birmingham, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
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  2. Introduction

    • Vicky Angelaki
    Pages 1-8

  3. Exit the Author

    • Dan Rebellato
    Pages 9-31

  4. ‘And I was struck still by time’: Contemporary British Theatre and the Metaphysical Imagination

    • Chris Megson
    Pages 32-56

  5. Politics for the Middle Classes: Contemporary Audiences and the Violence of Now

    • Vicky Angelaki
    Pages 57-78

  6. Language Games and Literary Constraints: Playing with Tragedy in the Theatre of Caryl Churchill and Martin Crimp

    • Elisabeth Angel-Perez
    Pages 79-95

  7. Racial Violence, Witnessing and Emancipated Spectatorship in The Colour of Justice, Fallout and random

    • Mireia Aragay, Enric Monforte
    Pages 96-120

  8. Old Wine in a New Bottle or Vice Versa? Winsome Pinnock’s Interstitial Poetics

    • Elizabeth Sakellaridou
    Pages 121-144

  9. Acting In/Action: Staging Human Rights in debbie tucker green’s Royal Court Plays

    • Marissia Fragkou, Lynette Goddard
    Pages 145-166

  10. Children and the Limits of Representation in the Work of Tim Crouch

    • Helen Freshwater
    Pages 167-188

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 189-192
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This edited collection brings together a team of internationally prominent academics and delivers cutting-edge discourse on the strongly emerging tradition of experimentation in contemporary British theatre - redefining what the dramatic stands for today. Each chapter of the collection focuses on influential contemporary plays and playwrights.

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“Vicky Angelaki’s collection Contemporary British Theatre: Breaking New Ground is a fascinating and enlightening read … . Thought-provoking and timely, the whole volume is strongly concerned with questions of ethics and witnessing, and with the relationship between the theatre and its audience. … Ultimately, this whole collection explores the dialogue between the theatre and the audience, and it covers new ground, shared between stage and spectators.” (Julia Boll, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 3 (2), 2015)

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  • University of Birmingham, UK

    Vicky Angelaki

About the editor

Vicky Angelaki, University of Birmingham, UK Mireia Aragay, University of Barcelona, Spain Marissia Fragkou, University of Birmingham, UK Lynette Goddard, Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK Chris Megson, Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK Enric Monforte, University of Barcelona, Spain Dan Rebellato, Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK Elizabeth Sakellaridou, Aristotle University, Greece Liz Tomlin, University of Birmingham, UK

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