Martin Crimp’s Power Plays

Intertextuality, Sexuality, Desire

Vicky Angelaki (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

112 Seiten

2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-47102-6 (ISBN)

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This book covers playwright Martin Crimp’s recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience.

Examining the bold and exciting body of writing by Crimp, the book delves into his depiction of intersections between narratives, as well as between private and public, through an honest look at power structures and shifts, marriages and relationships, sexuality, and desire.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in Drama, Theatre and Performance, English Literature, and Opera Studies.

Vicky Angelaki is Professor in English Literature at Mid Sweden University.

Acknowledgements

Introduction - Surveying the Battleground: Martin Crimp’s Relationscapes

Chapter 1 - Imitating Art: Fiction Pieces and Short Plays

Chapter 2 - Mating for Life: Men Asleep

Chapter 3 - Handling with Care: Cyrano de Bergerac and When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other

Chapter 4 - Falling Tragically: The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema and Lessons in Love and Violence

Afterword - Forever Cruel and Tender

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.06.2022
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-367-47102-7 / 0367471027
ISBN-13	978-0-367-47102-6 / 9780367471026
Zustand	Neuware