Drama on Drama

1. Front Matter

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2. Historical Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Greeks in Drama: Four Contemporary Issues

      • Nicole Vigouroux-Frey

      Pages 3-14

   3. The Revival of Medieval Forms in Recent Political Drama

      • Elisabeth Angel-Perez

      Pages 15-29

   4. Cultural Transformations of Subversive Jacobean Drama: Contemporary Sub-Versions of Tragedy, Comedy, and Tragicomedy

      • Klaus Peter Müller

      Pages 30-58

   5. Women Beware Women by Howard Barker (with Thomas Middleton): The ‘Terrible Consistency’

      • Michel Morel

      Pages 59-71

   6. Japanese Theatrical Forms in Edward Bond’s The Bundle and Jackets

      • Monique Prunet

      Pages 72-88

3. The Theatrical Is the Real

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. Now Converging, Now Diverging: Beckett’s Metatheatre

      • Ruby Cohn

      Pages 91-107

   3. Pinter and the Pinteresque: An Author Trapped by His Own Image?

      • Maria Ghilardi-Santacatterina, Aleks Sierz

      Pages 108-120

   4. ‘The Play’s the Thing’: The Metatheatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker

      • Christine Dymkowski

      Pages 121-135

   5. Tom Stoppard’s Metadrama: The Haunting Repetition

      • Nicole Boireau

      Pages 136-151

   6. Hauntings: Ghosts and the Limits of Realism in Cloud Nine and Fen by Caryl Churchill

      • Ann Wilson

      Pages 152-167

4. Enlightening Interplays

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. Watching for Dolphins by John McGrath: The Single Voicing of a Multiple Voice Performance

      • Jean-Pierre Simard

      Pages 171-183

   3. Devising Drama on Drama: The Community and Theatre Traditions

      • Anne Fuchs

      Pages 184-195

   4. Representing Gender/Representing Self: A Reflection on Role Playing in Performance Theory and Practice

      • Lizbeth Goodman

      Pages 196-214

   5. Translating, Adapting, Rewriting: Three Facets of Christopher Hampton’s Work as a Playwright

      • Albert-Reiner Glaap

      Pages 215-230

   6. Les Enfants de Parodie: The Enlightened Incest of Anglo-American Musicals

      • John Elsom

      Pages 231-245

5. Back Matter

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This book gives an in-depth and invigorating analysis of reflexivity in recent British drama - the way drama comments on drama. The interplay of dramatic forms, the cross-fertilization of historical traditions are explored in relation to major contemporary authors and theatrical practices. When drama takes itself as its own object of study it paradoxically highlights the most vital issues of its time. Key questions are raised about the nature of theatricality in play-writing and performance in this the first full-length treatment of the subject.

• Beckett
• British drama
• drama
• Harold Pinter
• Middle Ages
• realism
• Research in English and American Literature
• time
• British and Irish Literature

• University of Metz, France

  Nicole Boireau

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