Overview
- Argues that contemporary playwrights' responses to Elizabethan and Jacobean drama should be considered appropriation rather than adaptation
- Explores a range of derivative works, from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem
- Interrogates the nature of borrowing and appropriation in dramatic work
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Adaptation in Theatre and Performance (ATP)
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“The most satisfying aspects of the book are the more sustained readings of such complex and highly thought-provoking playtexts as Butterworth’s, Kane’s, or Greig’s that it manages to focus on for more than a few paragraphs. … the study provides rich material and collects many pertinent quotations from relevant sources.” (Tobias Döring, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 8 (2), 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Graham Saunders is Allardyce Nicol Professor of Drama Arts at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is author of Love me or Kill me: Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes (2002), About Kane: the Playwright and the Work (2009), Patrick Marber’s Closer (2008) and British Theatre Companies 1980-1994 (2015). He is co-editor of Cool Britannia: Political Theatre in the 1990s (Palgrave, 2008) and Sarah Kane in Context (2010).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama
Book Subtitle: 'Upstart Crows'
Authors: Graham Saunders
Series Title: Adaptation in Theatre and Performance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-44453-0
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) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-44452-3Published: 24 October 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-44453-0Published: 14 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-4043
Series E-ISSN: 2947-4051
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 194
Topics: Theatre History, Performing Arts, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British Culture, Literary History