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Title Rethinking the theatre of the absurd : ecology, the environment and the greening of the modern stage / edited by Carl Lavery and Clare Finburgh
Published London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (x, 318 pages)
Series Methuen drama engage
Methuen drama engage.
Contents Introduction: greening the absurd / Carl Lavery and Clare Finburgh -- Caryl Churchill's 'Dark Ecology' / Elaine Aston -- The garden in the machine: Edward Albee, Sam Shepard and the American absurd / Stephen Bottoms-- Mutant bodies: the absurd in eastern European experience / Ralph Yarrow -- Recycling Beckett / Joe Kelleher -- Rare butterflies, persecution and pinball machines: enviornment, subjectivity and society in the theatre of Arthur Adamov / Franc Chamberlain -- Ionesco's green lesson: toxic environments, ecologies of air / Carl Lavery -- Nettles in the rose garden: ecocentrism in Jean Genet's theatre / Clare Finburgh -- The secluded voice: the impossible call home in early pinter / Mark Taylor-Batty and Carl Lavery -- Epilogue: 'The ruins of time (I've forgotten this before)' / David Williams -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Drama -- Ecology -- History and criticism
Theater of the absurd -- History and criticism
Ecology in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Theatre studies.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
Ecocriticism
Ecology in literature
Theater of the absurd
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Lavery, Carl, 1969- editor.
Finburgh, Clare, editor.
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