bokomslag Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth
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Class, Culture and Tragedy in the Plays of Jez Butterworth

Sean Mcevoy

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  • 217 sidor
  • 2020
Jez Butterworth is undoubtedly one of the most popular and commercially successful playwrights to have emerged in Britain in the early twenty-first century. This book, only the second so far to have been written on him, argues that the power of his most acclaimed work comes from a reinvigoration of traditional forms of tragedy expressed in a theatricalized working-class language. Butterworths most developed tragedies invoke myth and legend as a figurative resistance to the flat and crushing instrumentalism of contemporary British political and economic culture. In doing so they summon older, resonant narratives which are both popular and high-cultural in order to address present cultural crises in a language and in a form which possess wide appeal. Tracing the development of Butterworths work chronologically from Mojo (1995) to The Ferryman (2017), each chapter offers detailed critical readings of a single play, exploring how myth and legend become significantin a variety of ways to Butterworths presentation of cultural and personal crisis.
  • Författare: Sean Mcevoy
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9783030627102
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 217
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-12-30
  • Förlag: Springer Nature Switzerland AG