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Author Delgado, Maria M

Title Contemporary European Playwrights
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (433 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. European playwriting and politics, 1945-89 -- 2. Elfriede Jelinek and Werner Schwab: Heimat critique and dissections of right-wing populism and xenophobia -- 3. Weronika Szczawinśka and Agnieszka Jakimiak: Dramaturg as a figure of transition -- 4. András Visky and Matéi Visniec: Challenging boundaries of cultural specificity -- 5. Lars Norén and Jon Fosse: Nordic grey or theatre innovators?
6. Martin Crimp and Simon Stephens: British playwrights as European playwrights -- 7. Marius von Mayenburg and Roland Schimmelpfennig: Dissecting European lives under global capitalism -- 8. Sarah Kane and Mark Ravenhill: The 'blood and sperm' generation -- 9. Vasilii Sigarev and the Presniakov Brothers: Staging the new -- 10. Paweł Demirski and Dorota Masłowska: Painful pasts, transformative presents -- 11. Jordi Galceran and Juan Mayorga: Unravelling the present, narrativising the past
12. Ivan Vyrypaev and Natalia Vorozhbyt: Language, memory, and cultural mythology in Russian and Ukrainian new drama -- 13. Enda Walsh and Martin McDonagh: Reimagining Irish theatre -- 14. Yasmina Reza and Florian Zeller: The art of success -- 15. Lena Kitsopoulou and Yannis Mavritsakis: Greek theatre at the antipodes of crisis -- 16. Emma Dante and Fausto Paravidino: Families, national identity, and international audiences -- 17. Biljana Srbljanovic ́and Ivana Sajko: Voice in the place of silence -- 18. debbie tucker green and Alice Birch: 'Angry feminists' on the European stage
19. Peter Handke: Inhabiting the world together -- 20. Jonas Hassen Khemiri: Writing out of the binary -- 21. Marie NDiaye: Eliding capture -- Afterword: The constructed space -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
Author Lease, Bryce
Rebellato, Dan
ISBN 9781351620536
1351620533